Kerry Hurt , LMFT

Kerry Hurt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Illinois with 10 years of clinical experience. She works with adults, adolescents, and teens addressing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and related challenges. Her practice also includes work with families on boundaries, communication, parenting styles, and the roles and hierarchy that shape family systems.

Kerry has experience supporting adolescents and teens diagnosed with autism, bipolar disorder, and personality disorders, offering interventions tailored to developmental and diagnostic needs. She also provides care for concerns such as caregiver stress, panic and panic disorder, social anxiety, isolation and loneliness, and questions of life purpose. Additional areas of focus include forgiveness, guilt and shame, self-harm, self-love, post-traumatic stress, sexual assault and abuse, and prejudice and discrimination.

Kerry uses narrative therapy to help people separate themselves from their problems and reframe personal stories to foster greater agency and compassionate self-understanding. She integrates attachment-informed perspectives when working with family dynamics and relationships, and draws on trauma-focused approaches when addressing the effects of abuse and loss. Kerry aims to create an open, nonjudgmental environment where thoughts and feelings can be explored and where taking the first step toward change is met with steady support.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Kerry blends several evidence-informed approaches to meet a range of concerns and to fit clients' individual needs. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotional responses and interpersonal patterns - it is useful for couples, family issues, and people who struggle with trust or intimacy. Narrative therapy helps people separate themselves from their problems by re-authoring personal stories, which can increase agency and reduce shame around issues like depression, anxiety, and identity concerns. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on understanding and processing the impact of traumatic experiences and supports healing from sexual assault, abuse, post-traumatic stress, and related symptoms.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Kerry works collaboratively with clients to identify which methods fit their goals, preferences, and life context, adjusting plans over time so therapy remains relevant and effective for each individual or family.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - Kerry provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different communication styles, schedules, and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, attend sessions from home or work, and choose the format that best supports progress.