About Stefanie
Stefanie Summers helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and relationship struggles. She also supports those dealing with parenting pressures, career transitions, anger, low self-esteem, and ADHD-related challenges. Stefanie brings two decades of clinical social work experience to her practice in North Carolina and offers a straightforward, compassionate approach.
She keeps sessions practical and focused. Stefanie uses clear strategies to reduce symptoms and improve everyday functioning. She listens for patterns in how people relate to others and to themselves, and then suggests realistic steps to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience in civilian and military clinical settings and work with people from varied life situations. Stefanie trained at the bachelor and master level in social work and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential. She combines talk-based therapy with tools drawn from attachment work, cognitive approaches, mindfulness, EMDR, and motivational techniques.
Sessions move at a pace chosen by the client. Stefanie aims to make hard conversations easier to manage and to help people find clearer choices. She frames goals in concrete terms and checks in on progress often.
People who choose her often want practical help plus space to process emotion. Stefanie blends structured exercises with listening and reflection. Her method is collaborative and rooted in real-world concerns and daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape today’s relationships. It helps people notice patterns in closeness and trust and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences. Together they decide whether attachment work, CBT, EMDR, mindfulness, or motivational techniques are the best fit and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets people read facial cues and have longer, therapy-style conversations. Phone sessions can be smoother when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or parenting schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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