Winnie Kearns

Winnie Kearns is a compassionate and effective clinician with over 30 years of experience in providing counseling services for youth and families facing emotional and mental health challenges. Utilizing a flexible and strengths-based approach, she guides her clients to clarify their goals, overcome barriers, develop essential skills and coping mechanisms, and strengthen their support networks. Winnie actively employs education and skills development to empower her clients in their healing journey. She works adeptly with teenagers navigating developmental stresses, parents striving to raise healthy and confident children, young adults making pivotal life decisions, families experiencing conflicts and transitions, and adults addressing deep-seated injuries or doubts. Her areas of expertise include anxiety and perfectionism, depression and mood disorders, family and relationship issues, blended family integration, adoption and attachment, self-injury, social stressors, health and sexuality, academic functioning concerns, and young adult individuation. With a strong belief in the healing power of relationships and community, Winnie provides outreach and coordinates care with families, schools, physicians, and psychiatrists as part of her treatment approach. Cultivating involvements and emotional supports is viewed as a vital aspect of the healing process.