About Stephanie
Stephanie Southard is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 26 years of practice in New York. She keeps sessions centered on each person’s goals and helps people address stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. Her manner is warm and straightforward, and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change thinking patterns that drive behavior. Stephanie also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and build meaningful routines.
Background and approach
Attachment-informed work appears when relationship patterns and family history affect current struggles. Sessions often include simple exercises, role play, and skill practice to build coping tools. These methods are applied to a wide range of issues such as sleep problems, parenting strain, grief, anger, and life changes.
She also supports people dealing with trauma, abuse, and co-occurring concerns like chronic illness or substance use. Stephanie worked and lived on Long Island, New York, and completed her Master of Arts in Social Work at Adelphi University in 1999.
Her background includes experience with community resources, courts, and systems like child protective services, which she draws on when relevant to a person’s needs. Her approach is collaborative: she meets people where they are, sets reachable goals with them, and adjusts plans as progress is made.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Stephanie blends cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help people manage anxiety, depression, and habit patterns. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behavior, with practical exercises people can try between sessions. ACT helps people clarify their values and take meaningful action even when difficult feelings are present, which can reduce avoidance and increase daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Stephanie will talk with each person about goals, try techniques that fit their needs, and adjust plans as progress is made. Clients and therapist decide together which methods feel most useful, whether that is skill practice, role play, or values-based work.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, offering practical flexibility. Video sessions are useful for in-depth work and role play. Phone calls can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be helpful for quick check-ins, homework prompts, or shorter coaching-style support. These options make it possible to continue steady therapy while adapting to a person’s schedule and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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