About Stasia
Stasia Manak helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, or trauma. She meets each person with warmth and respect and aims to build a straightforward plan that fits their life. Stasia is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of experience and works from Florida.
She uses clear conversation and practical exercises to address problems that get in the way of daily life. Sessions focus on what is most troubling now and on skills people can use between meetings.
How Stasia works
Stasia adapts her approach to each person's goals and values rather than using the same plan for everyone. Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's perspective. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and develop different habits.
Mindfulness practices and trauma-focused strategies are added when they match the client's needs. Stasia has supported people dealing with compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, body image and career stress. She also helps people facing adoption and foster care topics, blended family strain, communication problems, and issues tied to family of origin.
First responder and fatherhood concerns are among the areas she addresses. Sessions are offered in English and provided by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for the client.
The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time.
Stasia lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Stasia works with
The areas below are the ones Stasia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's perspective. The therapist follows the client's lead, helping them clarify what matters and supporting growth at their pace. This approach helps with building trust and tackling issues like low self-esteem or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Trauma-Focused Therapy attends directly to the effects of traumatic events and uses structured strategies to reduce overwhelming reactions and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to the client's goals, needs, and comfort level. They may blend approaches over time and adjust plans based on what helps most.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat enables brief check-ins, and text-based messaging suits ongoing support between appointments. These options offer flexibility for working people, caregivers, and those with irregular schedules.
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