About Stephanie
Stephanie Diaz is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 15 years of experience. She asks questions to understand what matters most to each person and helps set clear, achievable goals. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and adults alike.
Stephanie centers sessions on the client's own strengths. She listens for patterns in thoughts, feelings, and behavior, then helps people try small, practical changes.
Background and approach
Sessions may include guided mindfulness, thought-challenging exercises, and motivational conversation to build momentum. She works with common concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and parenting struggles, grief, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. Stephanie also supports people facing career shifts, burnout or compassion fatigue, and complex issues like co-morbidity and obsessive-compulsive patterns.
Her background includes long experience helping people from diverse cultural experiences. That perspective shapes how she talks about identity, relationships, and the everyday pressures that affect family life. She adjusts language and pacing so people can follow along and practice between sessions.
In therapy she blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness skills. Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants help clarifying goals and finding the next step. The result is a practical, collaborative approach that focuses on what can change now.
Practical approaches for online therapy and goal work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what the client says. It helps people feel heard and decide what matters most to work on. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and day-to-day life, then recommend methods to try together. Sessions often mix styles so the plan matches progress and changing needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around parenting, work, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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