About Sylwia
Sylwia Wielgosz is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 14 years of experience. Sylwia focuses on practical steps that help people manage everyday problems and build skills for better relationships and self-care. Sylwia works with people facing addictions, attention-deficit concerns, intimacy and relationship challenges, and LGBT issues.
Sessions emphasize clear goals and short-term tasks alongside longer-term growth. The therapist also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and other layered concerns.
Background and approach
The approach blends evidence-informed methods with an affirming, nonjudgmental stance. Sylwia offers psychoeducation, validation, and collaborative planning so clients know what to expect each week. Clients can expect attention to safety, accountability, and concrete skill practice during sessions.
Sylwia has experience addressing trauma, oppression, and harm-related issues, and brings cultural familiarity with alternative subcultures such as BDSM and polyamory. This background informs how the therapist talks about boundaries, consent, and identity in practical ways rather than abstract theory. Sessions move toward a personalized daily blueprint for living.
Sylwia helps people build self-soothing tools, communication strategies, and routines that fit their lives. The work aims to leave clients using skills independently and feeling more able to meet their goals.
How therapy approaches guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful when someone wants to reduce avoidance and live more intentionally. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with small behavioral experiments, which can reduce distress and improve daily routines. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating and communicating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sylwia treats the choice of method as a collaborative decision made together based on the person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions may mix elements from different approaches so the plan fits the client's situation and learning style.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing check-ins, brief coaching, and notes between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling, quicker access to skill practice, and ways to use therapy that match how someone prefers to communicate.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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