About Stephanie
Stephanie Kujawa is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and helps them find practical ways to cope. Stephanie takes a direct and compassionate approach that puts each person's real life first.
She focuses on common struggles like low self-esteem, depression, panic attacks, and relationship difficulties. She also supports people facing life transitions, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and social anxiety.
Background and approach
Stephanie provides straightforward tools to manage symptoms and rebuild day-to-day routines. Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions tend to be collaborative conversations where goals are set together and progress is reviewed often.
She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with respect and sensitivity. Stephanie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to fit what each person needs. That can mean working on unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing new communication skills, or pacing exposure to anxiety triggers.
The emphasis is on practical steps that can be used between sessions. People who reach out can expect clear explanations of the plan and small, achievable goals. Stephanie often helps people reframe setbacks as part of the process and to build momentum over time.
Her aim is to support people toward more stable moods and better day-to-day functioning.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Stephanie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing thoughts and behaviors. One common approach helps people identify and challenge unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more balanced thoughts. This method is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress because it targets everyday worries and reactions.Another approach emphasizes skills practice for managing intense emotions and improving communication. That work includes learning breathing and grounding strategies, building toleration for distress, and rehearsing clearer ways to express needs. These skills help with panic attacks, relationship friction, and overwhelming stress.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist works with each person to decide what fits their goals and daily life. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit in. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is low, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexible ways to keep momentum while juggling work, caregiving, or appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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