About Stephanie
Stephanie Czarnecki is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, direct approach and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her work centers on stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and mood concerns.
She meets people where they are and prioritizes respect and compassion. Stephanie uses a mix of methods rather than a single rigid system. She often draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help change thinking patterns and on mindfulness and acceptance methods to reduce reactivity.
Background and approach
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is part of her approach for processing trauma when appropriate. Clients can expect collaborative planning. Stephanie works with each person to set clear goals and build a plan that fits their needs.
Sessions are focused on practical skills, coping strategies, and communication techniques that people can use between meetings. Her background includes work in crisis management, substance use, and co-occurring conditions. She has experience with case management, individual and group therapy, anger management, medication coordination, and suicide prevention education.
That experience shapes an informed, problem-solving style. Stephanie also supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, identity questions, ADHD, and chronic health concerns. She helps people handle life transitions and career stress while aiming to strengthen self-esteem and coping skills.
The goal is steady progress, not instant change.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Stephanie often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and move toward valued actions instead of getting stuck. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space so people can explore what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets patterns of thinking and behavior, teaching practical skills to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then suggest strategies that match those needs. Together they adjust the plan as progress is made so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for a face-to-face feel, while phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins and ongoing support between longer appointments. These options help fit therapy into busy days and changing schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English