About Stephanie
Stephanie Feliciano is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, straightforward approach and listens first to understand each person's situation. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, aimed at helping clients feel clearer and more confident about next steps.
Stephanie blends clinical practice with a human-centered way of relating. Sessions focus on practical changes and on naming what feels hard.
Background and approach
She draws on tools from cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and from client-centered work to follow each person's priorities. For relationship and intimacy concerns she uses emotionally focused ideas to help people notice patterns and express needs more directly. Stephanie also brings perspectives from existential and Jungian approaches when exploring life meaning, values, and identity.
She commonly helps people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, addiction issues, parenting stress, body image concerns, and career worries. ADHD, bipolar, depression, and eating-related concerns are also within her experience. Stephanie works in English and Spanish and practices in Illinois as an LCSW.
Sessions can include short-term problem solving or longer work to understand deeper patterns. Stephanie encourages collaboration about goals and methods, and she guides people toward small, useful changes they can use between sessions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist creates a space where people can name what matters and set goals that feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete ways to change unhelpful patterns that feed anxiety or low mood.Finding the best approach tends to be a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. Clients often mix short-term techniques with deeper work, and that plan can change as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexible care. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a quick verbal check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when shorter, more frequent exchanges fit a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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