About Stephanie
Stephanie Zitani is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, worry, mood shifts, or problems with substance and process addictions. She also supports individuals facing relationship strain, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and challenges around intimacy and control.
Her style is straightforward and person-centered. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths that can be used to make change.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented while also making room to process difficult feelings. Stephanie uses cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She blends mindfulness practices to build moment-to-moment awareness and reduce reactivity.
Motivational interviewing is part of her approach when people want help finding motivation to change addictive patterns. Over eight years of work, she has guided people through issues such as social anxiety and phobia, ADHD-related challenges, codependency, and communication problems. She brings steady support for anger, guilt, shame, and impulse control concerns as well as for people seeking clearer life purpose.
Her sessions are conversational and collaborative. She helps clients set realistic steps, try new strategies, and check what works. The goal is to move toward more coping tools, clearer choices, and a greater sense of control over daily life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building on what already works in a person’s life. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects back what’s important, and helps set goals that feel meaningful. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it offers clear strategies to test and change habits that fuel anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will talk about options, try methods that fit the client’s goals, and adjust as needs change. This lets each person get methods that feel useful rather than forcing a single style.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work. Live chat and messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, writing things out, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats give flexibility so people can keep working on anxiety, motivation, and behavior change in ways that suit their routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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