About Stefanie
Stefanie Moreno is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Virginia. She brings ten years of hands-on experience in behavioral health and independent practice. Stefanie focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while coping with life changes and painful events.
She works with adults who are struggling with depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and relationship problems. Stefanie also helps with parenting concerns, blended family issues, and caregiver stress.
Background and approach
She supports people dealing with sleep or eating concerns, anger, self-esteem struggles, and attention-related challenges such as ADHD. Her background includes roles in public and personal behavioral health, group homes, psychiatric facilities, and independent practice. That mix of settings shaped a practical style that blends different approaches to match each person’s needs.
Stefanie uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try small changes. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and on motivational interviewing to strengthen readiness for change. Stefanie aims to make sessions straightforward and goal-focused, using exercises and real-world strategies that people can try between meetings.
Stefanie emphasizes a whole-person perspective that connects thoughts, body reactions, and daily habits. She invites people to talk about what matters to them and to build manageable steps toward better coping and clearer relationships.
Therapeutic tools for online support
Stefanie draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT often breaks problems into small steps and uses short exercises that people can practice between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy strategies to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. These DBT-derived tools can be useful for managing strong feelings, reducing impulsive reactions, and improving communication. Motivational interviewing is used when someone feels stuck or unsure about change; it focuses on clarifying personal goals and building motivation at a manageable pace.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a joint process. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and what has or hasn't helped before, and then work together to try methods that fit the person's life. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked and preferences become clear.
Online therapy with Stefanie is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Those options provide flexibility - video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text are helpful for quick check-ins or shorter exchanges. This range of formats helps fit sessions into busy schedules and different communication styles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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