About Stephanie
Stephanie Czarnecki is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, collaborative style and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Stephanie works with common struggles such as anxiety, depression, stress, addiction, and grief, and she also supports people facing trauma, ADHD, bipolar mood disorders, and relationship or parenting concerns.
She draws on several approaches to tailor care to each person.
Background and approach
Stephanie often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns and try small changes. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and build workable routines. Her background includes direct patient care, case management, group and individual therapy, anger management, and work with long-term recovery and medication teams.
That experience helps her see both immediate problems and the bigger picture that shapes daily life. She has worked with people who have co-occurring conditions and complex diagnoses and adapts plans to match each person’s situation. Sessions are collaborative and practical.
Stephanie aims to meet people where they are, build trust, and set achievable goals together. She prefers straightforward talk and concrete strategies over medical labels, while still using diagnoses to guide useful interventions. People who choose her can expect respectful, compassionate care focused on realistic change.
She helps clients build tools for coping with life transitions, communication struggles, intimacy issues, and the everyday stressors that wear people down.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Stephanie often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in sessions, which helps people identify what matters most to them and take small actions that align with those values. ACT can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it focuses on building a meaningful life rather than only reducing symptoms.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a practical method that helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and experiment with new ways of responding. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, anger, and many everyday problems because it emphasizes clear steps and skills practice.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what works. Clients and therapist decide together which tools fit personal needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, journaling between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping sessions consistent and focused.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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