About Stefanie
Stefanie Kalski, LMHC, helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, low self-esteem, and depression. She emphasizes practical steps and steady support to help clients move toward a more manageable life. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused.
Stefanie listens first, then works with each person to set small, clear goals. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and builds on existing strengths rather than starting from scratch.
Background and approach
Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods. Stefanie uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also draws from Attachment-Based Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address relationship patterns and emotional regulation.
With five years of clinical experience and a Florida licensed mental health counselor credential, Stefanie brings practical experience to common concerns like parenting stress, trauma recovery, and mood challenges. She aims for sessions that feel useful from the first meeting.
She works with people facing a wide range of related issues, including abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and codependency. Sessions focus on small changes that stack up over time to make daily life easier. Stefanie conducts work in English and provides online formats that match how people live today.
She supports clients who want direct, collaborative help and clear tools they can use between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches for online phobia work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions. It emphasizes values and small steps toward living a fuller life, which can be useful for anxiety and phobia-related avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. That practical, step-by-step method often helps reduce anxiety and build confidence in situations that once felt overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan over time so sessions stay relevant and effective for everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls let people practice skills and role-play in real time. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to try approaches that translate into everyday situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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