About Geneen
Geneen McGowan offers straightforward, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, or depression. She helps clients who are trying to cope with big life changes, manage mood shifts, or rebuild motivation and confidence. Geneen works from Illinois and brings five years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, to each session.
She treats a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and attention-related difficulties like ADHD.
Background and approach
Geneen also addresses guilt and shame, impulsivity, intellectual disability needs, isolation or loneliness, post-traumatic stress, self-harm thoughts, and issues common to young adults. In sessions she centers the person’s story and strengths. She views clients as the experts on their lives and offers practical tools to try between meetings.
Conversations tend to focus on clear goals, small steps forward, and skills that can be used when emotions run high. Geneen combines empathy with direct guidance to help people build confidence and manage symptoms day to day. Sessions aim to make problems easier to understand and less overwhelming.
She supports people as they experiment with new ways of coping and a different relationship to difficult feelings. Her practice offers flexible formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People interested in beginning can follow the Start Therapy process to match and schedule sessions.
How Geneen’s Approaches Work Online
Geneen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional regulation. One common approach involves skills training to manage anxiety and mood swings - learning breathing, grounding, and thought strategies that reduce distress in daily life. Another approach centers on processing difficult experiences and trauma in small, manageable steps so painful memories feel less overwhelming and reactions become easier to handle.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. Geneen works with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. She encourages small experiments in between meetings so decisions about technique are based on real results and preferences rather than assumptions.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls let the therapist and client read facial cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to share quick updates or try brief coaching. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to test approaches in everyday situations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English