About Blythe
Blythe Steingel is a licensed independent social worker who helps people worried about anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. She focuses on everyday problems like low self-esteem, parenting pressures, relationship strain, and grief. Blythe uses practical tools so people can manage hard moments and feel more steady day to day.
Blythe works in a warm, straightforward way. Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then offers techniques that match what the person actually needs.
Background and approach
She draws on several approaches including acceptance-based and cognitive methods to help people notice thoughts, make values-based choices, and try small changes. Her background spans 19 years of clinical experience in Ohio as an LISW - licensed independent social worker.
That experience includes helping people cope with chronic illness, caregiving stress, trauma and abuse, and the complex emotions that follow separation or loss. She brings practical problem-solving alongside support for emotional healing. In sessions Blythe often focuses on skills people can use right away - for example breathing and grounding, communication exercises, and ways to reframe unhelpful thinking.
She also helps people set goals tied to what matters most to them and track progress between visits. People who reach out with career stress, compassion fatigue, or family conflict find a steady, nonjudgmental presence. Blythe aims to make therapy feel manageable and useful, with steps that fit into a busy life and lead toward clearer choices.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce distress, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and naming emotions to improve communication and repair relationship wounds, often useful when emotions lead to repeated conflict.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Blythe collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time so the work stays practical and relevant rather than theoretical.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face when schedules allow. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins, journaling support, or when typing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or health limitations while still using ACT, CBT, or EFT techniques in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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