About Stephanie
Stephanie Goossens Alayon is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She guides clients through relationship and family concerns, low self-esteem, and big life changes. Stephanie speaks English and Spanish and works with adults from Florida and beyond via online sessions.
She draws on practical, skills-based work to help people handle day-to-day struggles. Stephanie often focuses on how patterns from early relationships affect current behavior and emotions.
Background and approach
She uses clear tools to help reduce worry, improve communication, and build steadier self-worth. Her approach blends problem-solving with attention to emotions and body responses. Sessions may include learning new ways to respond to stress, practicing mindfulness, and trying small experiments to test different reactions.
These steps are meant to feel doable and relevant to daily life. Stephanie has five years of experience working with adults in clinical settings. She has spent additional earlier years working with adolescents and young adults, which shaped her understanding of life-stage transitions.
Her training and background inform a practical style aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes. People looking for help with anxiety, relationship struggles, family-related stress, or a sense of emptiness can expect straightforward guidance and concrete skills. Stephanie emphasizes collaboration - she helps clients set goals and choose techniques that fit their situation and values.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice repeated relationship behaviors and try new ways of connecting that feel safer and more satisfying.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Clients learn to identify unhelpful thinking, test beliefs, and practice small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean starting with CBT tools, adding attachment-focused conversations, or mixing techniques as things evolve.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and exercises that use body language. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, homework support, and staying connected between sessions.
These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to try different ways of working until a good fit is found.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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