About Stephanie
Stephanie Traver is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 11 years of experience to her practice in New York. She focuses on helping people facing trauma, mood disorders, anxiety, addiction, and parenting stress. Stephanie uses practical talk and clear steps to help clients move forward.
She blends approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based work. Sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and on building small habits that reduce stress.
Background and approach
Stephanie emphasizes self-reflection and concrete plans for change. Clients can expect a supportive, down-to-earth approach. Conversations aim to make problems easier to understand and manage.
The therapist helps people develop strategies for daily challenges and longer-term stressors. Stephanie has experience with a wide range of concerns including bipolar disorder, depression, grief, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and caregiver stress.
Her practice includes work on relationship and communication problems for individuals, as well as parenting needs and coping after difficult events. Stephanie prefers collaborative planning so clients leave sessions with clear next steps they can try between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small actions even when feelings are difficult. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from close relationships and helps people form more supported ways of connecting with others and managing attachment-related stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss these methods with the client and decide which fits best based on goals and preferences. That collaboration helps shape session plans and homework so it feels relevant and doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face dialogue and visual cues. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins, coping tools between sessions, or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut, Ohio
- Languages
- English