About Stephanie
Stephanie Czarnecki is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of direct clinical experience. She offers a warm, collaborative style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and ADHD. Stephanie aims to meet each person where they are and work together toward practical, achievable goals.
She uses a mix of approaches rather than a single method. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are commonly used to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help clients notice values and take steps that fit those values. Stephanie has worked across a range of settings, providing individual therapy, group work, case management, and support for long-term recovery. That background gives her experience with mood disorders, co-occurring substance use, and trauma-related concerns.
She is comfortable talking about complicated diagnoses while keeping the focus on day-to-day coping and progress. Sessions are collaborative and tailored. Treatment plans are created with the person’s goals in mind, not imposed from the outside.
Stephanie prioritizes respect, compassion, and practical tools that can be used between sessions. People who turn to her often want concrete strategies for emotion regulation, relapse prevention, communication, and handling life changes. She balances direct skill teaching with space to process hard experiences.
The goal is steady improvement rather than instant fixes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that line up with what matters most. ACT is useful for stress, anxiety, and making consistent changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors with clear, step-by-step skill practice for mood and anxiety problems. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) offers a structured way to process past trauma memories and reduce their impact on daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and combine methods that fit the person’s needs. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that balances skill-building with emotional processing.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when visual cues matter and for longer work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills in everyday life.
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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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