About Stephanie
Stephanie Czarnecki is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of hands-on experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with anxiety, stress, addiction, trauma, and related struggles. Her style is warm and collaborative, and she centers each session on the person in front of her.
Stephanie uses practical tools to help people manage symptoms and move toward clearer goals. She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness skills to reduce distress and build coping strategies.
Background and approach
She also integrates approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when those methods fit a person's needs. Her background includes work in individual and group therapy and roles that involved case management and long-term recovery support. That experience means she is comfortable addressing co-occurring concerns such as substance use, mood differences, and trauma-related reactions.
She also has experience supporting people through grief, relationship strain, and career stress. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Stephanie treats each person with respect and compassion and avoids defining anyone solely by a diagnosis.
She helps people learn skills, test new ways of responding, and make practical plans for change. People who connect with her can expect plans that are tailored to their situation. She believes therapy is a team effort and works with clients to set realistic steps toward the outcomes they want.
Stephanie practices in Illinois as an LCSW and conducts sessions in English.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping skills.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie treats that as a collaborative process and will help clients try methods and decide what fits best based on goals and preferences. Sessions can combine approaches as needed so people get practical tools and supportive exploration together.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can fit a short break or lower bandwidth situations, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins or when someone prefers typing. These options make it easier to keep a consistent schedule, practice skills between sessions, and get support from different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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