About Kenneth
Kenneth Stall is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has spent over five decades helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. He trained at the Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work in Chicago and earned his Illinois LCSW (LCSW) license in 1990. Kenneth brings long experience to each session and focuses on practical steps clients can try between meetings.
He uses tools from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to help clients notice patterns and change unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are part of his approach when helpful, offering ways to live in line with personal values despite difficult feelings. Sessions are straightforward and aimed at skills you can use in day-to-day life. Kenneth has worked with children, teenagers, and adults across many concerns, including ADHD, impulse issues, mood disorders, grief, trauma, parenting strain, and relationship problems.
He also has experience helping people with obsessive and panic symptoms, postpartum mood concerns, and midlife transitions. He sometimes works with athletes on the mental side of sport, especially tennis and golf competitors. Clients can expect a mix of structured techniques and listening.
He draws from different methods rather than one rigid style. Mindfulness exercises, cognitive reframing, and values-based actions are common tools in sessions. He typically schedules sessions Monday through Friday in afternoon and evening hours.
Sessions are offered in English and are available in video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging formats. The focus is on finding practical, manageable changes that fit each person’s life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are uncomfortable. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical experiments to reduce symptoms like panic, obsessive thinking, or depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills that reduce stress and improve emotion awareness, which can help with anger, impulse control, and everyday anxiety.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try techniques that fit the client’s life and adjust methods over time if something is not helpful.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video calls let conversations feel more like an in-person session. Phone sessions or live chat need less bandwidth and can be easier on days when video feels like too much. Text-based messaging supports brief check-ins and practice between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can use the approach that works best for their schedule and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 53 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English