About Stephanie
Stephanie Kokot is a licensed master social worker in Michigan with four years of clinical experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma, and issues related to LGBT identity. She aims to create a respectful, sensitive space where people can begin to feel less alone.
She works with people who struggle with dissociation and Dissociative Identity Disorder and those facing complex mood and trauma-related concerns.
Background and approach
Other areas she addresses include attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, and trouble with communication and commitment. She also supports clients navigating body image, chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, and alternative sex cultures like kink and BDSM. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals.
Stephanie explains that therapy is a collaborative process and that she tailors conversations and plans to what helps an individual make steady progress. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide that work. Her approach emphasizes practical steps and steady emotional support.
She encourages people to notice small changes and build skills for managing strong emotions and distressing memories. Stephanie validates the courage it takes to start therapy and meets people where they are. People who prefer working in flexible online formats can connect through video or phone calls, live chat, or text-based messaging.
These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into busy schedules and to check in between longer appointments when needed.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Stephanie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety, stress, and trauma. One approach focuses on practical coping skills to reduce day-to-day anxiety and improve emotional regulation. This type of work helps when worry, panic, or mood swings make it hard to function at home or work.Another common strand of work addresses trauma and dissociation by helping people name what happened, learn how their body and mind respond, and practice grounding and stabilization strategies. That work is paced to what each person can handle and aims to reduce distressing symptoms over time.
Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques match their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling more flexible. Video sessions let people use face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins and timely support between longer sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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