About Destony
Destony Stewart is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, career strain, and depression. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking so daily life feels easier to manage.
Her background includes three years working as an LCSW in New York. She draws on approaches that connect thoughts, body, and past experiences to support healing.
Background and approach
Work in therapy often looks like noticing unhelpful patterns, practicing small changes, and trying new ways to respond to difficult feelings. In sessions she blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with somatic techniques and trauma-focused methods. That means clients learn to identify values, accept uncomfortable feelings without getting stuck, and use gentle body-based practices to reduce tension.
Conversations move between ideas, actions, and physical experience to create shifts that carry into everyday life. She pays attention to attachment concerns, avoidant or commitment worries, and feelings such as guilt, shame, isolation, or somatic symptoms. Therapy also addresses issues many women bring into sessions.
The focus is on practical tools that fit each person’s situation. If someone is new to therapy, she helps map out clear first steps and realistic goals. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Sessions are calm, collaborative, and paced to match each person’s needs.
How ACT, Somatic, and Trauma‑Focused Work Translate Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with painful thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, commitment worries, and low mood because it focuses on action rather than just changing thoughts.Somatic Therapy brings attention to bodily sensations and simple grounding practices. It helps when stress or trauma shows up as tension, headaches, or other body symptoms by teaching ways to notice and ease those reactions through breath and gentle movement.
Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing difficult memories and reducing their hold on day-to-day life. Work may include pacing difficult topics, building coping skills, and integrating experiences so they feel less overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Decisions are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on steady, workable change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Relationship issues
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English