About Geneen
Geneen McGowan is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD. She writes plainly and listens carefully to understand each person's situation. Her style is encouraging and practical, aimed at small changes that add up over time.
She believes the client is the expert in their own story and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions focus on identifying realistic goals and testing new habits that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Geneen emphasizes courage and steady progress rather than quick fixes. With five years of professional experience, she has supported people through grief, trauma, relationship struggles, and major life transitions. She also addresses impulsivity, mood challenges, compassion fatigue, and isolation.
The approach is flexible to match what a person most needs in the moment. Therapy sessions can include talking through difficult feelings, learning coping strategies, and practicing ways to manage overwhelm. Geneen aims to make those steps feel manageable and relevant to everyday routines.
Her practice is based in Illinois and sessions are offered in English. People interested in beginning work are invited to consider what they most want to change and bring that to an initial conversation.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Geneen draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills. One focus is practical skills training that breaks larger problems into small steps, useful for issues like anxiety, ADHD-related impulsivity, and managing mood swings. Another common approach is strengths-focused problem solving, which identifies what already works and adapts those patterns to new challenges like life transitions or grief.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Geneen works with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and daily routines. Over the first few sessions she and the client try approaches, notice what helps, and adjust the plan based on real-world results.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break during the day, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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
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