About Stella
Stella Holmes-Hughes offers calm, direct support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life transitions. She meets each person with respect and practical focus. Her approach aims to reduce immediate distress and build skills for managing hard moments.
Stella is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in New York with 27 years of experience. She helps people address trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, anger, and low self-esteem.
How Stella works
She also works with issues such as gender dysphoria, HIV and AIDS, and end-of-life counseling. In sessions she adapts conversation and techniques to the person in front of her. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to challenge unhelpful thinking.
She also draws on acceptance-based and attachment-oriented ideas to strengthen values and close relational gaps. Stella emphasizes clear, practical steps alongside emotional processing. She can help with compulsive behaviors, obsessive thoughts, jealousy, infidelity, and sexual assault recovery.
For seasonal mood changes and paranoia she focuses on routines and coping strategies that fit daily life. People meet her for short-term problem-focused work or longer-term support. She structures a plan together with each person and revises it as progress and needs change.
Stella encourages small, manageable changes and recognizes the courage it takes to begin.
Stella lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Stella works with
The areas below are the ones Stella selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps people manage anxiety, depression, and avoidance by practicing small, value-driven steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy works on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. It is useful for anxiety, OCD-type concerns, and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotional patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating and communicating.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most in real life.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied routines. Video is helpful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support brief check-ins or homework between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue progress from different locations.
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