About Kenneth
Kenneth Stall is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than five decades of experience. He earned his master’s degree at the Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work in Chicago and has been practicing since earning his IL LCSW in 1990. He is straightforward and practical in sessions and aims to help people manage everyday struggles.
Kenneth often helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and attention difficulties such as ADHD.
Background and approach
He also supports those facing grief, trauma, relationship strain, parenting challenges, anger, and issues with impulse control. His work covers a wide range of mood and anxiety conditions as well as obsessive and panic symptoms. His style blends several approaches rather than relying on a single method.
He uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. He brings in mindfulness exercises to help people stay present and reduce reactivity. Kenneth’s background includes training in the basic principles of Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy with Dr.
Albert Ellis, though he only uses those techniques selectively. He has long experience working with adolescents and adults in areas like attention concerns, depression, career coaching, and parenting skills. He is also interested in performance coaching for tennis and golf competitors, focusing on the mental side of sport.
Sessions are offered in Illinois and conducted in English through a range of online formats.
How ACT, CBT and Mindfulness work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, procrastination, and living with chronic stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and obsessive patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and breathing practices that lower reactivity and improve focus for daily tasks and emotional ups and downs.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kenneth will work with each person to find techniques that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean starting with CBT tools, adding mindfulness practice, or using ACT ideas when values and action planning are needed.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people work face to face without travel. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can suit shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, homework checks, or when typing is easier than speaking. These options offer flexibility so therapy can continue around work, school, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- 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
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