About Stefanie
Stefanie Summers, LCSW, helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, ADHD, and relationship concerns. She draws on two decades of clinical work to offer steady, practical support for adults facing life changes. Stefanie speaks plainly and focuses on what people can do between sessions to feel steadier.
Her background includes long-term social work practice in both civilian and military settings. Stefanie has worked with people affected by trauma, adoption and foster care histories, homelessness, and serious mental health challenges.
Background and approach
That experience shaped a respectful, down-to-earth style that aims to meet each person where they are. In sessions she uses tools from attachment-based approaches and cognitive behavioral therapy to look at patterns and build new habits. She also offers EMDR elements and mindfulness strategies for managing distress and processing difficult memories.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want focused change or coaching around goals. Stefanie blends clinical therapy with broader wellness ideas and energy-based practices she has studied. She frames those additions as complementary options people can choose if they find them helpful.
The overall aim is clearer thinking, improved routines, and less day-to-day overwhelm. People who meet with her can expect practical steps, gentle reality checks, and tasks to try between sessions. Stefanie likes to keep work grounded and achievable so progress feels real.
Her approach is collaborative and tuned to each person’s needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships. Online sessions use conversations and reflective exercises to identify relationship patterns and build healthier ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. In teletherapy CBT is practical - clients learn tools to change unhelpful thinking and try behavior experiments between sessions to see what helps.Choosing the right method is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether attachment work, CBT, or another approach is the best fit and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues during deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief coaching, on-the-spot coping tools, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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