About Anthony
Dr. Anthony Schefstad focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by worry, fear, or persistent avoidance. He listens without judgment and works to make therapy understandable and manageable.
He aims to help people reduce anxiety, face phobias, and find practical ways to cope with stress and life changes. With 30 years as a licensed clinical social worker, Dr. Schefstad draws on a mix of talk-based and goal-focused methods.
He often uses client-centered techniques to follow what matters most to the person in the room.
Background and approach
He also applies cognitive behavioral ideas to identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems active. Sessions are adapted to each person. Dr.
Schefstad offers conversation, guided exercises, and brief problem-solving tasks. He may introduce hypnotherapy or motivational interviewing when clients want help shifting habits or increasing motivation. People come for many reasons, such as anxiety, panic, phobias, substance misuse, trauma, grief, low mood, or work strain.
He also addresses first responder and veteran concerns, cultural issues, and challenges tied to personality or addiction patterns. Therapy focuses on clear steps and usable skills. Dr.
Schefstad helps people set small goals, practice coping strategies between sessions, and track progress over time. He encourages realistic changes that fit a person's life and priorities.
Approaches That Fit Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on following each person's concerns and goals. The therapist listens closely and shapes sessions around what the client says matters most, which helps when people want a collaborative, paced process.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises and between-session tasks to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and face phobias through gradual steps.
Hypnotherapy can be offered as a guided relaxation and suggestion-based approach to support changes in habits, motivation, and responses to fear. It is used alongside talk-based work when a client prefers that method.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try short experiments, and adjust methods based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single style.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent even with a crowded schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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