Kerrian McKay, MSW, LCSW

Welcome! My name is Kerrian McKay, I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of Virginia and founder of Shifting Perspective Counseling, a telehealth online based practice. My mission is to empower individuals to lead emotionally healthy lives by helping them develop practical skills to communicate needs, express feelings and reframe emotions in healthy ways, so that they are able to effectively problem solve, find inner peace and live in their truth. My specialty and work focus on Individuals with struggles of: -Historical unhealthy relationship issues - Engaging in unhealthy social and intimate relationships with friends, family, significant other, dating, work peers - Personality issues that create conflict in relationship with others - Self confidence, self-esteem, individuals who appears put together on the outside but is struggling to maintain on the inside (imposter syndrome) -Multi-cultural, multi-generational family conflict, difficulty engaging in healthy relationships with immediate and extended family members of same or different generation, culture. - Effectively communicating and expressing needs to family, partner, friends, acquaintances - Implementing personal and interpersonal boundaries, honoring personal boundaries, honoring the boundaries of others - Breaking away from codependent, rescue syndrome relationship cycles, burn out - Resiliency through trauma; personal, family, social and racial trauma