About Destony
Destony Stewart is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and relationship concerns. She focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. Her tone is warm and collaborative, and she aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for someone under pressure.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients clarify values and take small, meaningful actions.
Background and approach
Somatic therapy techniques are used to notice how the body holds stress and to build grounding skills. Trauma-Focused Therapy supports processing difficult events at a pace the client can handle. Destony frames sessions around each person's strengths.
She listens for what already works and helps build on those resources. Sessions often involve simple exercises, homework between meetings, and real-world steps to test new ways of coping. With three years of clinical experience as an LCSW in New York, she blends practical tools with a gentle, attuned approach.
Conversations stay focused on what matters most to the client and on small changes that make life easier. People reach out to address anxiety, depression, career stress, trauma and abuse, attachment concerns, and loneliness. She also supports those dealing with guilt, commitment worries, somatization, and women's issues.
Approaches that fit online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when anxiety shows up. ACT uses short exercises and real-life experiments that work well over video or messaging. Somatic Therapy focuses on noticing bodily sensations tied to stress and learning simple grounding practices to calm the nervous system; these exercises can be coached by voice or video and practiced between sessions.Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The therapist will listen to your goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what feels helpful. Together you’ll choose whether to emphasize values work, body-based regulation, or trauma-focused processing over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different rhythms of life. Video calls let you work face to face for skills practice and movement-based grounding. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share concerns in moments between sessions or to get regular, brief support while building new habits.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Relationship issues
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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