About Stephanie
Stephanie Silva is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelming feelings and restore daily functioning. Her approach is warm, direct, and respectful, aimed at helping people feel heard and calmer sooner.
She draws on several therapy styles to match each person's needs. Stephanie uses cognitive behavioral methods to help spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful action despite difficult feelings. Sessions are interactive and goal-oriented. Stephanie works with people on relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, LGBT issues, ADHD, career questions, and self-esteem.
She also addresses communication problems, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and end-of-life planning concerns. Her background includes practical roles that brought experience with emergencies, case management, and complex life stressors. That work shaped a straightforward style focused on what will help most in day-to-day life.
Stephanie adapts plans rather than using a single method for everyone. People can expect guidance, clear skill-building, and steady encouragement while they make changes. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
Online and phone formats let people fit help into busy schedules.
Therapeutic approaches for life stress and anxiety online
Stephanie often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify thought patterns and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is practical and action focused, and it can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete skills.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult feelings and still take steps that match their values. ACT supports people who want to live with more intention even when emotions are strong.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Stephanie will discuss goals, test techniques, and adjust methods based on how someone responds. That collaborative process helps find what actually helps in daily life rather than sticking to one method.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video suits deeper conversations and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works for short check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and focused.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Florida
- Languages
- English
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