About Kendra
Kendra Young welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or burned out. She introduces a calm, direct style that helps people talk through stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship strain. Kendra is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and she draws on practical tools to help people take the next step in their lives.
She uses straightforward methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and build steady coping skills.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior therapy tools are used when emotions feel intense and steadier regulation strategies are needed. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques help clarify goals and find small, doable changes that make a real difference.
Over a dozen years of work in counseling and life coaching have given Kendra experience with addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, career stress, bipolar disorder, and sleep problems. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family stress, and codependency. Her background includes work across a range of life transitions and relationship patterns.
Sessions are conversational and collaborative. Kendra aims to create a respectful space where people can try new skills and change habits that get in the way of daily life. She adjusts pace and tools to match each person's goals and strengths.
Kendra practices in Alabama and offers sessions in English. She uses clear, actionable steps so people leave each session with something they can try before the next meeting.
How Kendra’s Approaches Work Online
CBT helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Online sessions use practical exercises and simple behavioral tasks to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Mindfulness therapy focuses on learning small attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and help with emotional ups and downs.Dialectical behavior therapy provides concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal communication. In online work these skills are practiced in session and assigned as short, doable homework to try between meetings. Kendra and the client decide together which approaches to use based on current needs, goals, and what feels most useful; this is a collaborative process that can change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make scheduling easier and help sessions fit into busy days.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English