About Aileen
Aileen Stotter is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in New York who uses straightforward, practical approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 11 years of experience to sessions and focuses on everyday struggles that interfere with life.
Parents and individuals often seek her out when anxiety, mood shifts, or difficult family dynamics get in the way of daily functioning. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused on clear goals and small, doable steps. Aileen prefers to work collaboratively, so clients help shape what feels most useful each week. Aileen also addresses eating and body image concerns, obsessive thoughts, panic symptoms, and challenges with anger or impulsivity.
She helps people notice patterns that feed stress and practices new skills to change them. Issues tied to family of origin, codependency, and relationship struggles are discussed in ways that connect past influences to present choices. People who struggle with mood disorders, bipolar symptoms, personality-related challenges, or trauma and abuse find practical strategies in her sessions.
She supports work on guilt, shame, and self-esteem while teaching tools to cope with life changes. Her style is direct but compassionate, aiming to build skills people can use outside of sessions. Aileen offers therapy in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Her approach centers on clear steps, steady progress, and helping clients reclaim routines and confidence.
CBT and practical strategies for online care
Aileen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice thoughts that increase anxiety and then test different responses. CBT focuses on changing patterns of thinking and behavior, which can help with phobias, panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, and mood symptoms.She works in a collaborative way to find the best approach. Together, therapist and client look at goals, try techniques, and adjust methods when something isn’t working. Deciding which strategies to use is part of the therapy process and is shaped by each person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls let people practice skills face to face. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief, ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping the focus on practical change and skill building.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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