About Svetlana
Svetlana Sokol is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience supporting people through hard transitions. She holds a Florida LCSW (FL LCSW SW8602) and has worked in medical and community settings since 2005. Svetlana speaks English and Russian and offers sessions to clients both in Florida and internationally.
Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and trauma. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and career stress.
Background and approach
People come to her for help managing life changes, compassion fatigue, and chronic illness-related challenges. Svetlana draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide conversations. She uses Motivational Interviewing to help people clarify goals and find their own reasons for change.
Sessions focus on practical steps and straightforward talk rather than jargon. Her background in medical settings shaped her approach to end-of-life care, hospice issues, and caregiving stress. She also addresses aging and geriatric concerns, immigration-related stress, and complex family problems like divorce or infidelity.
In sessions she listens carefully and helps people build coping skills. She offers a calm, steady presence and works at a pace that matches each person’s needs. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
How approaches meet your needs online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience at the center. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the person’s lead to build understanding and trust. This approach helps when someone needs a safe space to talk things through and find clarity.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical skills. It helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. This method is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes.
Motivational Interviewing is a short, goal-focused way to explore readiness for change. It helps people identify their own reasons for change and build motivation for steps like reducing substance use or improving self-care.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then recommend methods that fit. Over several sessions the plan can be adjusted so it matches changing needs and progress.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction while staying in different locations. Phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make frequent brief check-ins possible and can fit around busy schedules. Together these options help people access therapy in ways that suit their daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Russian