About Stefanie
Stefanie Summers is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of clinical practice. She helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship or parenting concerns. Stefanie works with adults facing life changes, career stress, compassion fatigue, and challenges like ADHD or intimacy issues.
Stefanie’s approach blends talk-based therapy with practical tools. She uses evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people reduce worry and manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas guide her work on relationships, and she also uses EMDR for trauma-related memories when appropriate. In sessions, Stefanie keeps language simple. She helps clients set small goals and practices they can try between meetings.
Motivational interviewing is part of how she supports change, helping people find their own reasons to try new behaviors. Her background includes years working in community and military settings, and with people affected by foster care, adoption, and homelessness. That range shaped a flexible, strengths-focused style that attends to daily life demands as well as deeper wounds.
Stefanie is based in North Carolina and conducts therapy in English. She offers online session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, with scheduling set after a short matching questionnaire.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to identify patterns and practice new ways of relating to partners or children.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks worries and habits into thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions, Stefanie guides practical exercises, behavioral experiments, and thought records that people can use between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve daily routines.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps process traumatic memories that keep causing distress. When used remotely, EMDR protocols are adapted so clients can track bilateral stimulation and process material with the therapist’s guidance over video or phone.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Stefanie will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels manageable, then try methods and adjust based on what helps most. Clients can expect regular check-ins about progress and plans that fit their life.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow visual cues and joint exercises, phone sessions can work when video isn’t possible, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage low-energy days, and continue consistent work toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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