About Maryann
Maryann Kenney is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience based in New York. She focuses on helping people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma, and grief. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
Maryann draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people build coping skills and stronger emotional regulation. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how life transitions, chronic illness, and aging can affect mood and relationships. Her practice often centers on restoring a sense of purpose and easing isolation. She also addresses attachment concerns, abandonment, and feelings of emptiness.
Practical communication strategies and problem-solving are part of the work. Maryann has long experience supporting people through grief, hospice and end-of-life issues, and serious health challenges such as cancer or chronic pain. She is familiar with stress related to first responder roles and journalistic work.
In sessions she helps clients name patterns, practice new ways of coping, and set small, achievable goals. The approach is warm but focused on real-life changes. Maryann uses her clinical judgment as an LCSW to guide the process alongside each person’s priorities.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Maryann uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear, practical steps to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. One common approach she uses involves structured skill-building to manage anxiety and depression, teaching breathing, thought tracking, and activity planning to help people feel steadier. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and grief in small, manageable steps so memories and loss become less overwhelming and more integrated into daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She meets each person where they are and tests what helps, adjusting methods based on goals and preferences. Clients and therapist collaborate on pace, homework, and which techniques to emphasize so therapy fits the person’s life.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text allow brief, flexible check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity during work hours, travel, or health challenges while still focusing on meaningful progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English