About Sophie
Sophie Niemaszyk is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and big life changes. She writes in a calm, straightforward way and focuses on building skills that make daily life more manageable. Sophie emphasizes practical steps people can use between sessions to feel steadier and more capable.
Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems to match tools to individual needs.
Background and approach
That means Sophie helps identify unhelpful thoughts, set small concrete goals, and look at internal parts that influence feelings and choices. Sessions tend to be hands-on with clear strategies to practice outside therapy. Sophie has four years of clinical experience working in Illinois and holds the LCSW credential.
Her background includes supporting people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and anger. She also focuses on concerns such as social anxiety, panic attacks, compassion fatigue, self-esteem, and coping with life transitions. When relevant, Sophie brings family members or caregivers into planning and skill-building to support carryover at home and school.
She aims to make recommendations that are realistic for busy days and varied routines. Her approach is collaborative. Sophie works with each person to set small goals, try practical techniques, and track what helps.
Over time those steps add up into clearer choices and more confidence.
Approach-focused care for online therapy
Sophie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, panic, and worry by breaking problems into small, manageable steps.She also applies Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, achievable goals and build on what is already working. This approach emphasizes quick, concrete changes and small experiments that can reduce stress and improve daily functioning.
Internal Family Systems is used to identify different internal parts that shape emotions and choices. Working with these parts helps people understand their reactions and develop kinder, more effective ways to respond to stress and past hurts.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to find methods that fit a person’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video can be helpful for more in-depth skill practice, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing skill reminders. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy routines and different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Intellectual disability
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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