Michal Kenny

Couples Counseling & Sex Therapy

The decision to address a problem, rather than turn away from it, is the biggest step towards the change you want. If you are reading this, you are well on your way.

About Me

I'm a Massachusetts Licensed Mental Health Counselor, a Couples Counselor, and a certified Sex Therapist through the American Association for Sexual Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. My private practice is in Winchester, Massachusetts, where I see adult individuals and couples. I work with all sexual orientations and lifestyles.

I'm dedicated to identifying my clients needs and supporting them in achieving their therapy goals. I bring 25 years of clinical experience. My personal style is warm and gentle; my clients' safety, comfort, and progress are at all times my highest priority.

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Sex Therapy

Sex is a sensitive topic to address for many reasons: It often brings up insecurities about being wanted, being normal, and about being adequate. Inhibitions, thinking that we should know more than we do, that it should be easy and ecstatic, creates pressure around the topic.

When sex isn't how we wish it was and understandable reactions are triggered, the topic is often avoided.

A safe and accepting setting of therapy, will help you address the difficulties you're experiencing. Many sexual problems are relatively easy to solve, with information, communication, understanding and practical suggestions.

Some of the sexual issues I work with include:

Low desire
Problems with arousal
Sexual discrepancy
Difficulty with sexual functioning
Pain with intercourse
Inability to climax
Sexual abuse history

Therapy length varies greatly depending on the issue and duration of symptoms.

During our meetings, we will have conversations only about the issues you are struggling with. Suggestions might be made for things to try at home.

Couples Counseling

Couples counseling offers an opportunity for you as a couple, to identify difficulties that interfere with your ability to enjoy a supportive and close relationship. Our conversations will make it easier for you to talk about your difficulties, deepen your understanding of one another and build skills to better communicate and problem solve. While Couples Counseling creates an environment where you can talk about sensitive topics and feelings, the conversations are used to build practical skills, problem solve and bring about the changes you desire.

Some Couples Counseling issues include:

Strengthening communication
Overcoming affairs
Aligning parenting approaches
Stress Management
Resolving old wounds
Adjusting to life changes
Learning to live with loss
Coping and understanding past trauma

Couples often say that they wish they came into therapy sooner; quality of life is significantly enhanced when a relationship improves.

Even the first session, is often enough to feel relief that you're expressing and addressing something that's been hard to live with and feeling hope about making changes.

Testimonials

Entering Michal’s office, I always find myself in a warm, loving environment, where I can open up, talk about everything that matters deeply to me, and explore new possibilities for myself and for my relationship with my spouse. I feel that Michal cares deeply about my well being. She has an amazing capability to recall details from previous conversations, often putting them into a new, healing perspective. It can be hard to talk about intimacy and vulnerability, but Michal’s empathic personality really helped me to do so. All of this is combined with a good sense of humor which sometimes serves as the best remedy for our problems.

After a cross-country work relocation and a number of other family-related stressors, my partner and I decided that we needed to prioritize our romantic relationship, and find a couples therapist. As a psychologist myself, I had a high standard for what I wanted our therapy to look like. Michal exceeded those expectations. Her warm and genuine interpersonal style immediately made both myself and my partner feel comfortable and heard. We were a bit anxious going into the couples therapy experience, and my partner as the only "non therapist" in the room, worried she may feel ostracized. In our very first session, Michal was able to ease our anxiety and helped us set our therapy goals. From there, we met one to two times a month working on topics that we identified as important in our relationship. Through our work with Michal, my partner and I were able to re-connect in a way that made the foundation of our romantic relationship even stronger, and set us up for a path for continued success into the future. I have had a number of my own personal therapists through the years, also working collaboratively with many other during my training and career, and I believe that Michal is one of the best therapists I've had the pleasure of working with and knowing.

Michal has been incredibly helpful to me over the years and I am eternally grateful for all of it. She is warm, kind, insightful, and funny. And she has an uncanny ability to reflect back what she's hearing in a respectful, clear, and gentle way. She takes complex issues and makes them easier to understand. Her feedback is strong and powerful, which when combined with her gentle delivery, is the perfect combination for me. Michal is one of a kind, and I can't recommend her highly enough.

After having experienced sexual trauma in my early 20’s, I spent a lot of time and resources searching for help and support. With something as raw and delicate as trauma, the way in which the aftermath is treated is an integral part of the recovery process. I tried several different forms of therapy, but nothing has afforded me the safety, comfort and healing that I have found in working with Michal.

Regardless of the depth or weight of what is uncovered in each session, I always leave with a sense of strength and empowerment: a direct result of the empathy, knowledge and care she brings to meet each obstacle. I know that I am sitting across from someone who not only understands me, the complexities of our human emotions and experiences, but also, someone who believes in me. Someone who believes in my ability to heal my past, overcome the moment and create something new from it. Especially when I don’t believe it myself.

It has been both my privilege and pleasure to work with Michal and I am grateful to have had her through this process.

Specialities

Adults
Individuals
Couples Counseling
Sex Therapy
Clinical Supervision

Payment and Insurance Information

To protect your confidentiality and offer you quality treatment, free from insurance constraints, I've chosen to be an out of network provider. Payment for the sessions is therefore out of pocket. If you have a PPO plan, you could seek reimbursement for your cost and the process is relatively simple. Its best to call your insurance company to know what your reimbursement would be and whether you have a deductible to meet. I will provide you with all the information you'll need for the reimbursement claim and will help you with the process.