About Stephanie
Stephanie Carvajal is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who focuses on helping people with anxiety and other everyday struggles. She speaks English and Spanish and brings five years of clinical experience to each session. Stephanie aims to make the first steps feel manageable and practical for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
She uses a caring, interactive style in sessions. Conversations move toward skills that can be tried between meetings.
Background and approach
Stephanie blends straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches with motivational interviewing and mindfulness skills to help people notice what’s getting in the way and practice new responses. Her background includes work in community and medical settings, where she supported people through grief, trauma, and crisis situations.
That work also involved helping people sort through family dynamics and the stresses that come from parenting, caregiving, or major life changes. Sessions commonly include short goal-setting, skill-building, and talking through difficult moments. Stephanie helps people break problems into smaller steps and pick concrete actions to try.
She also uses techniques that help reduce intense emotions in the moment. Outside of work she enjoys running and has participated in mission trips to Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Nicaragua. She approaches therapy with encouragement and practical guidance, aiming to support people as they take ownership of their next steps.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers support, and helps clarify personal goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. CBT is often used for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving how people handle conflict or distress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan when something does not fit. That keeps work focused on what actually helps the person in their daily life.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people send thoughts between sessions or use shorter, more frequent check-ins. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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