About Stephanie
Stephanie Czarnecki is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of clinical experience. She uses a warm, collaborative style and meets people where they are. Stephanie focuses on practical steps to reduce stress and improve daily functioning.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, EMDR, and client-centered work. This mix lets her tailor sessions to what a person needs right now. She aims to translate insights into everyday change.
How Stephanie works
Stephanie has worked with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and grief. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include body image, blended family issues, chronic pain or illness, and attachment-related difficulties.
Her background includes individual and group therapy, case management, anger management, and long-term recovery support. Stephanie has experience with medication management coordination and suicide prevention education. She has provided care in settings that address co-occurring conditions and complex presentations.
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Treatment plans are developed together based on symptoms and personal goals. Stephanie emphasizes respect, dignity, and practical tools so each person can move toward their version of wellbeing.
Stephanie lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Stephanie works with
The areas below are the ones Stephanie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Online approaches that match your needs
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and making choices that reflect personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that helps process painful memories so they feel less overwhelming. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Stephanie will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, symptoms, and preferences. She often blends techniques so sessions stay practical and relevant to everyday life. Online sessions can make therapy easier to keep up with. Video calls let people meet face to face when that matters. Phone sessions are useful when a camera is not convenient or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or follow-up between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit into work, school, or family routines rather than requiring major schedule changes.Start online instead of waiting
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