About Desiree
Desiree Steadman-Gallegos is a licensed clinical social worker in Utah. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering steady support and practical steps. Her tone is warm and direct, and she aims to make conversations feel safe and useful from the first session.
She works with stress and anxiety, depression, grief, and challenges around relationships and intimacy. She also helps with parenting strain, career questions, self-esteem, and life changes.
How Desiree works
People bring issues like anger, isolation, and questions about identity or purpose. Desiree uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to build values-based action.
She uses attachment-informed work to look at how past patterns affect current bonds. Cognitive behavioral tools are used to notice thoughts and try different responses. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps.
Conversations include skill practice, chance to process painful feelings, and planning for real-life changes. She pays attention to culture, immigration background, and challenges tied to military or veteran experiences when those come up. With 18 years of experience as an LCSW, Desiree adapts her style to each person.
She explains options, listens closely, and helps people choose what makes sense. Beginning therapy is framed as a partnership toward more manageable days and clearer choices.
Desiree lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Desiree works with
The areas below are the ones Desiree selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and feeling unmotivated. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and aims to create new ways of connecting and communicating. It can help with intimacy, trust, and relationship patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Desiree will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together they will decide which methods to try. That way the plan fits what matters most and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow visual connection for deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins or scheduling challenges. These options help people keep therapy going around work, school, or caregiving commitments and make it easier to practice new skills in daily life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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