Dr. Kendra Corning, NC Psychologist 5354
Calm, practical support for life’s hard moments
About Kendra
Dr. Kendra Corning meets people where they are and focuses on practical support for everyday struggles. She is a licensed psychologist in North Carolina with 12 years of experience.
She listens without judgment and helps people name the problems that feel overwhelming right now. Dr. Corning works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and addiction.
She also supports people managing bipolar disorder, ADHD, sleep problems, and questions about identity. Care for long-term medical changes, chronic pain, and caregiver strain is part of her work too.
Background and approach
Her way of working is collaborative. She uses what a person brings to shape conversations and a plan. Sessions often include short practice tasks to try between appointments so skills carry into daily life.
Dr. Corning draws on somatic approaches, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and client-centered listening. That mix lets her tailor tools to emotions, thoughts, and body sensations people notice in hard moments.
She aims for clear, plain talk in sessions and for goals that feel realistic. Progress usually looks like small changes that build over time. Starting therapy is a step toward relief, and she focuses on steady, workable steps to get there.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Somatic-informed work focuses on body sensations and how they relate to emotions and stress. It helps people notice physical signals like tightness or shallow breathing and learn simple practices to calm the body and reduce reactivity.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, centers on noticing thoughts and values. It encourages people to take small committed actions that match what matters to them, even when hard feelings are present.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will check in about what feels helpful and adjust methods based on goals, comfort, and progress. This is a collaborative process rather than a fixed package.
Online sessions can use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and body-focused practices, while messaging and chat can support short check-ins or homework guidance. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and integrate skills into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English