Niamh Kennaugh (she/her)

Anxiety is a natural response to perceived danger or important events. It's an internal alarm system that alerts us to pay attention. I help clients build tolerance to life's uncertainties by understanding the four main components of anxiety symptoms: physiological responses, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors or outcomes. I'll help you understand how our brain and body work, normalize the experience, and externalize the anxiety, so you can pivot to keep doing life when anxiety shows up.

If you are living with OCD, you are experiencing many unique challenges as OCD likes to attach to the things we treasure most and attack our character. Obsessive thoughts that are often times disturbing and reoccurring. These unwanted thoughts increase anxiety and, for many, compulsions seemingly help to minimize or reduce anxiety. What we know, however, is that compulsions only work to reduce the anxiety temporarily. I work help break the cycle of avoidance through CBT and ERP.

I enjoy working with adolescents to make sense of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The adolescent years are challenging, confusing, and often complicated as teens endeavor to answer the question, “who am I?” I aim to empower, support, and guide teens, by earning the right to be heard which comes through providing a safe space to meet teens where they are at, listening to their interests and perspectives, while communicating acceptance.