About Stefanie
Stefanie Kalski helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and depression. She is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with five years of professional experience. Stefanie writes plainly and focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life.
She treats each person as the expert on their own story and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions aim to make small changes that add up over time.
How Stefanie works
Stefanie uses clear tools and gentle questioning so people can try new ways of handling difficult moments. Her work draws on several approaches, including acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-focused ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. Those methods are used to help with things like managing intense feelings, handling upsetting memories, improving relationships, and changing unhelpful habits.
Stefanie often helps people facing specific life stresses such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, aging and caregiver concerns, chronic illness and pain, or cancer-related stress. She also supports people dealing with attachment wounds, codependency, commitment fears, and a range of personality-related challenges. Sessions are offered in English and take place remotely.
Stefanie focuses on clear, practical work and supports clients as they try new approaches and track progress over time.
Stefanie lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Stefanie works with
The areas below are the ones Stefanie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then taking steps toward a more meaningful life. It is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress that make daily choices feel harder. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in early relationships and how they show up now; it helps people improve how they connect, trust, and feel safe with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety and depression.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Stefanie treats therapy as a team effort and will help figure out which methods fit a person's needs and goals. She mixes techniques when that makes sense so clients can try different tools and see what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or moments when writing feels easier. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and maintain continuity between meetings.
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