About Stephanie
Stephanie Rodriguez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, and major life changes. She has ten years of experience and focuses on practical support that people can use in day-to-day life. She listens first and works to make clients feel understood.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Conversations often cover how the body and nervous system respond to stress and trauma, not just thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Her work includes support for people recovering from domestic violence and those coping with grief, chronic illness, caregiver strain, or career and life transitions. She also addresses relationship patterns like attachment, communication, and codependency that keep people stuck. Therapy often combines teaching skills, short-term strategies, and longer-term reflection.
Clients learn grounding and regulation techniques, practical coping tools, and ways to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Stephanie emphasizes small, achievable steps that add up over time. Sessions are offered in English and take place online in Delaware-based practice formats.
Stephanie uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session based on availability. Her style is warm, straightforward, and focused on real-world change.
She aims to help people regain stability, reduce overwhelm, and rebuild confidence one step at a time.
Online approaches for stress, trauma, and relationships
Evidence-based techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and patterns that affect relationships by teaching practical skills and step-by-step experiments.Trauma-informed care focuses on understanding how past harm can affect the body and emotions today. This approach emphasizes safety, pacing, and strategies to reduce overwhelm, and it is often paired with nervous system regulation techniques like grounding and breath work to manage intense feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day needs. Plans are adjusted over time as progress and challenges become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different life demands. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during short breaks. Live chat and text-based messaging give ongoing access for brief check-ins, homework help, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health routines while keeping focus on practical change and pacing.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English