About Sylvia
Sylvia Stogner is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Mississippi. She has 35 years of experience helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, and ADHD. Sylvia aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure about reaching out.
She uses a direct and compassionate style in sessions. Sylvia creates a space where clients can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
She helps people build practical coping skills and explore patterns that get in the way of daily life. Over three decades she has worked in both public and personal settings. Her background includes work in schools, foster care and adoptive settings, and home-based services.
That variety shaped a flexible approach to solving problems across different life situations. Sylvia often focuses on issues connected to relationships and life transitions. She supports work on attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, communication difficulties, and finding life purpose.
She also addresses chronic pain, illness, mood disorders, panic, social anxiety, and women’s issues. In sessions she prioritizes clear goals and steady progress. People can expect straightforward feedback, skills practice, and time to reflect on what has been helpful.
Sylvia encourages small steps that lead to meaningful change.
Practical approaches for online work and symptom relief
Evidence-based techniques Sylvia uses focus on teaching skills that make daily life easier. One common approach helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns so anxiety and mood problems become more manageable. This method is useful for panic, social anxiety, and mood concerns. Another approach emphasizes grounding, safety, and processing upsetting experiences in small steps to reduce the impact of trauma and abuse. That style helps people regain a sense of control and reduce reactivity.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Sylvia will work with each person to decide what fits their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adapts methods over time and checks in to see how techniques are working so adjustments can be made together.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, quick skill practice, or times when typing feels simpler than talking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English