Kenneth StallLCSW

Kenneth Stall is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over five decades of hands-on experience. He earned a master’s degree from the Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work in Chicago and has maintained his Illinois LCSW since 1990. He works in a straightforward, practical way and focuses on problems people bring into sessions. He uses a mix of approaches rather than one fixed method. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy inform how he helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and take small, manageable steps toward valued goals. He also uses mindfulness exercises in session to help with stress and emotional regulation. His background includes long experience with children and teens, including attention and impulse challenges, and with adults around ADHD, depression, anxiety, and parenting skills. He has provided career coaching and couples counseling in past roles, and he now also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, and mood concerns. Kenneth pays attention to practical skills people can use between sessions. That may mean short behavioral experiments, grounding techniques, or simple mindfulness practices to lower reactivity. He describes himself as eclectic and selective in using techniques to fit each person’s needs. He has an interest in the mental side of sport and works with tennis and golf competitors on performance-related concerns. Sessions are generally scheduled Monday through Friday in the afternoon and evening, and he sees a broad range of stressors related to relationships, parenting, and life transitions.

Practical approaches for online work and life fit

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts appear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on noticing unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors that change mood and functioning. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose or adapt methods based on goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and changing course when something is not working. If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow continuity when schedules change. It can also let people practice skills in their real-life settings between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these approaches in remote sessions to focus on symptom management, parenting strategies, sport mental practice, and stress reduction without promising a specific outcome.