About Svetlana
Svetlana Sokol is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience. She is based in Florida and speaks English and Russian. She has worked in medical settings since 2005 and has supported people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and chronic illness.
Her background includes long experience with end-of-life care and hospice-related concerns. That work shaped how she responds to intense loss, caregiver stress, and health-related life changes. She also addresses trauma, addictions, and relationship challenges.
Background and approach
Svetlana uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's pace and priorities. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change patterns of thinking that increase stress and anxiety. Motivational Interviewing is part of her approach for people working through ambivalence or behavior change.
Sessions are conversational and practical. She focuses on what is happening now and offers tools to manage mood, reduce anxiety, and cope with life transitions. She also supports people dealing with caregiving strain, attachment struggles, and intimacy or relationship concerns.
Svetlana aims to help people build clearer choices and better day-to-day coping. The tone in sessions is respectful and direct. She encourages small, realistic steps toward the goals each person sets for themselves.
How her approaches work online
Svetlana uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a collaborative relationship where the client's priorities guide each session. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and following the client's pace, which helps when anxiety or grief make it hard to know where to begin.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking and behavior patterns that keep stress and anxiety active. CBT gives concrete exercises and small experiments people can try between sessions to reduce worry and change mood over time.
Motivational Interviewing is used when someone feels uncertain about change. It helps clarify values and boosts motivation so clients can move toward goals like cutting back on substances or improving self-care.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then adjust techniques together in an ongoing way.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video works well for a full session; phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited; chat or texting can support brief check-ins and between-session contact. These options make therapy more flexible for people balancing work, caregiving, or health concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Russian
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