Kerry Guernsey, LCSW

Kerry Guernsey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Indiana with 13 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, eating concerns, parenting strain, low self-esteem, and ADHD, and also helps people dealing with codependency and related family or relationship patterns.

Kerry’s sessions focus on clear, practical steps. She helps people improve communication and set boundaries. She guides clients through building steadier daily routines and managing overwhelming emotions. Discussions are straightforward and action-oriented rather than abstract.

She has long experience supporting people with eating-related issues, social anxiety, and workplace stress. Kerry often works with young adults and women who are trying to regain a sense of themselves after months or years of putting others first. She pays attention to how life transitions and blended family situations affect day-to-day functioning.

Kerry draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape sessions. That means she uses methods that focus on skills for emotion regulation, behavior change, and improving relationships. Sessions include practice of new skills and follow-up on how they worked in real life.

Practical concerns like caregiver stress, body image, impulsivity, guilt and shame are part of the work. She helps clients explore where people-pleasing habits came from and how to start saying no without adding shame. The first sessions review current routines, immediate stressors, and goals, and then map small, doable changes.

How evidence-based methods translate to online sessions