About Stephanie
Stephanie Charles is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of experience helping people navigate addiction, mood struggles, and relationship stress. She works with adults facing anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and parenting challenges. Stephanie focuses on building confidence and practical coping skills so clients can manage day-to-day pressures.
She approaches work with the view that each person knows their story best. Sessions focus on identifying strengths and small, realistic steps.
Background and approach
Stephanie talks through problems like communication difficulties, compulsive behaviors, and career stress in plain language. She supports people dealing with prejudice, multicultural concerns, and isolation. Her background includes direct clinical practice in New York, where she has supported clients with process addictions such as gambling or pornography, and with substance use.
She also helps those struggling with postpartum depression and seasonal affective disorder. When attention or focus is a concern, she offers strategies relevant to ADHD and related challenges. Therapy combines practical problem solving with emotional support.
Stephanie helps people set short-term goals and practice new ways of responding to stress and anger. She also offers coaching-style guidance for career decisions and life transitions. Overall, sessions are collaborative and straightforward.
The goal is to leave each visit with at least one useful step to try between meetings. Stephanie aims to make therapy understandable and doable for people with busy lives.
Therapeutic Methods and How Online Sessions Help
Stephanie uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and managing symptoms. One common approach emphasizes skills for coping with anxiety and depression, teaching breathing, thought management, and activity planning to reduce overwhelm. Another approach targets addictive and compulsive behaviors by identifying triggers and building alternative routines to interrupt harmful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That process includes trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting plans together over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, need ongoing support between sessions, or want brief check-ins during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, and other routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English