About Stephanie
Stephanie Kujawa is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She practices in Illinois and offers straightforward, practical support for those coping with major life changes and relationship strain. Stephanie aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk through what feels most urgent to them.
She focuses on concrete skills patients can use between sessions, such as coping tools for panic or steps to rebuild confidence.
Background and approach
Stephanie also helps people who are dealing with abandonment or attachment concerns, body image struggles, caregiver stress, and isolation. She pays attention to how mood, money worries, and life transitions affect daily functioning. Her style is warm and interactive.
Conversations are collaborative and tailored to each person's needs. Treatment plans emphasize what a person hopes to change and clear steps to get there. Stephanie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address issues like panic attacks, seasonal mood changes, and relationship communication problems.
She works with pregnancy- and postpartum-related concerns as well as separation and divorce challenges. Sessions are offered in English and are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, with cost varying by location and therapist availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Stephanie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear strategies and skills people can apply right away. Cognitive-behavioral approaches look at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teach practical steps to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. These methods are often used for panic attacks, mood issues, and social anxiety.She also draws on techniques that address attachment and relationship patterns by helping people notice how early relationships affect current communication and trust. This work can help with abandonment fears, relationship conflict, and improving emotional connection. The therapist adapts methods to match each person's goals and life situation through a collaborative process.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try different strategies, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist set goals together and track progress over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy lives. Video is useful for in-depth conversations, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat can support short check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English