Kerry Guernsey
Calm, practical support for everyday family stress
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kerry
Kerry Guernsey is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people handle stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, eating concerns, ADHD, and low self-esteem. She writes and speaks plainly with parents and individuals who feel overwhelmed. Kerry aims to make conversations feel practical and supportive from the first meeting.
Kerry draws on 13 years of clinical experience in Indiana as a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW. She focuses on everyday problems like communication breakdowns, codependency, caregiver stress, and body image.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with attention to small changes that add up over time. Her work often covers blended family issues, family problems, and the routines that create friction at home. She helps people talk through commitment worries, impulsivity, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
When eating or food-related concerns arise, she approaches them with direct, step-by-step problem solving. Kerry emphasizes self-compassion and improved communication as tools for change. She partners with clients to identify practical coping skills and healthier patterns.
Progress is measured in concrete shifts in day-to-day life rather than abstract ideas. In sessions she applies evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor the work to each person. The tone stays collaborative and down-to-earth.
Parents and individuals who want clear, manageable steps often choose her approach.
Evidence-based care delivered online for daily life
Mindful approaches focus on noticing thoughts and feelings without harsh self-judgment. This helps reduce anxiety, ease stress, and improve self-esteem by teaching simple attention and breathing skills that can be used in the moment.Behavioral strategies break problems into small, testable steps. For eating and routine issues, this looks like setting realistic goals, tracking patterns, and trying new behaviours one step at a time to see what works. These techniques also help with impulsivity and establishing steadier routines.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and suggest techniques that fit daily life. Together they try different methods and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules. These options allow for flexible timing and quick check-ins when small issues arise between longer appointments. Many people find that having multiple formats makes it simpler to keep progress going.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kerry
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point