About Stephanie
Stephanie Sligo-Baker is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) practicing in Minnesota with 37 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship concerns. She brings a calm, respectful approach and aims to match each conversation to the person in front of her.
Her work emphasizes clear dialogue and practical steps. Sessions usually involve talking through current problems, noticing patterns, and trying small changes that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how attachment and relationships shape feelings, and helps people identify coping skills that fit their life. Stephanie blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and elements of dialectical behavior therapy. That means she listens closely, helps clients understand unhelpful thoughts, and teaches skills for managing intense emotions.
She also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning during difficult transitions. She has long experience supporting people who face workplace trauma, including firefighters, police officers, and healthcare workers, and she works with individuals from the LGBT community. Her additional focus areas include ADHD, chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image, and intimacy-related concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and scheduled around client needs. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a time to meet.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Stephanie often combines client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people address day-to-day struggles. Client-centered work means the therapist listens without judgment and follows the client's lead to set goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety or improve mood.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation or intense reactions are a concern. DBT-style work teaches concrete tools for managing strong feelings, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without making things worse. These approaches are practical and aimed at what a person wants to change in life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your needs and preferences, try methods that fit your goals, and adjust as you learn what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which skills or perspectives to emphasize over time.
Online sessions can make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls are useful for richer interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer no camera, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options let people choose what matches their routine and energy level.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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