About Stephanie
Stephanie Rodriguez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and big life changes. She focuses on clear, practical support that helps people feel steadier day to day. She listens first and aims to make people feel understood.
Sessions emphasize practical skills to manage intense emotions, reduce overwhelm, and improve relationships. The therapist explains how the body and nervous system react to stress so clients can build useful strategies.
Background and approach
Her approach is collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs. She uses evidence-based techniques, mindfulness practices, and nervous system regulation tools to help people regain balance and feel more in control. Psychoeducation and strengths-based work are woven into sessions.
Stephanie has particular experience with trauma and survivors of domestic violence, and she helps people adjust after loss or major life shifts. She also supports people facing caregiver strain, chronic illness or pain, attachment and abandonment concerns, and relationship or communication problems. Sessions aim to build insight, practical coping skills, and resilience over time.
She frames therapy as a team effort - noticing what’s working, trying new approaches, and adjusting as needed. Stephanie practices in Delaware and provides services in English.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Stephanie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real skills and body awareness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced thinking, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Trauma-informed care and nervous system regulation strategies teach practical ways to calm the body, reduce reactivity, and feel more grounded after distressing experiences.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That ongoing conversation makes it easier to try strategies, notice what helps, and change course when needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth work and teaching exercises, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in, and chat or messaging is handy for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options help people access care around work, caregiving, or health constraints and make it possible to keep moving forward from many locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English
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