About Galina
Galina Storozhenko is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with 17 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. Galina works in English and Russian and aims to create a calm, respectful space to begin difficult conversations.
She centers sessions on the person's own goals and strengths. Galina believes people know their stories best and she helps them build on what already works.
Background and approach
She uses clear, practical techniques so clients can try new ways of coping between sessions. Her approach draws on several evidence-based methods. Galina adapts tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and commit to workable changes. For relationship concerns she brings principles from the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce recurring conflict. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are offered for emotional regulation and distress tolerance when feelings become overwhelming.
Galina works with common life stresses including workplace strain, isolation, caregiver burden, chronic illness, and midlife shifts. She supports people dealing with panic attacks, social anxiety, mood struggles, and the aftereffects of trauma. Her style is collaborative, straightforward, and focused on practical steps.
To begin, people answer a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit their routine. Galina aims to guide each person toward clearer choices and more reliable ways to manage anxiety and everyday challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Galina uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy as core ways to address anxiety and mood concerns. CBT focuses on noticing and changing patterns of thought and behavior that increase anxiety or depression. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when difficult feelings remain.She often pairs these with client-centered listening to make sure the plan fits each person's life. Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with the client to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and everyday routine.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break or a quiet hour. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, frequent messages to track progress and practice skills.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Russian
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