Stephanie Czarnecki, LCSW
Practical, story-focused therapy for real life
Details
| Name | Stephanie Czarnecki |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LCSW |
| Based in | Illinois |
| Licensed in | Missouri, Illinois |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 10 |
About Stephanie
Stephanie Czarnecki is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of hands-on clinical experience. She offers straightforward, collaborative care and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and mood concerns. Her style is warm and interactive.
Sessions aim to meet people where they are and work from there. Stephanie avoids putting people in boxes and instead looks at the symptoms and life context to find usable steps forward.
Background and approach
She draws on Narrative therapy to help clients tell and reshape their stories. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered approaches to build values-based goals and strengthen personal agency. Practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy are used when they fit the situation.
Stephanie has worked in settings that included individual and group therapy, case management, anger management, medication coordination, and suicide prevention education. That background informs how she plans treatment and supports long-term recovery and coping with complex situations.
People come to her for a wide range of concerns including depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She collaborates on treatment plans and focuses on small, reachable steps that fit each person's life.
Sessions are offered from Illinois in English, and Stephanie adapts her approach to the needs, goals, and preferences each person brings to therapy.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Trauma and abuse among the things Stephanie works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Stephanie among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Stephanie among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Stephanie among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Stephanie among the ways she works.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Listed by Stephanie among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Stephanie among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Stephanie among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Stephanie among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Stephanie among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Stephanie among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Stephanie among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Stephanie directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Stephanie directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How narrative and skills-based work translate online
Stephanie combines Narrative therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered techniques to help people change the stories they tell about themselves and take concrete steps toward what matters. Narrative work looks at personal stories and helps identify patterns and alternative meanings, which can help with identity, grief, and relationship struggles. ACT focuses on values and small committed actions to reduce the hold of painful thoughts and feelings and is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-Centered therapy centers the persons experience, offering empathic listening and partnership so goals emerge from the client's priorities.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie treats therapy as a collaboration and will help figure out which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in, and messaging is practical for brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it simpler to continue consistent work and practice skills between appointments.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of concerns can she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, and related concerns such as grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, and career stress.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Sessions are collaborative and person-centered. She blends Narrative therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and practical skills from CBT and DBT as needed.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years of experience providing direct clinical care, including individual and group work, case management, and suicide prevention education.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with licensure in Illinois and Missouri, and she practices from Illinois.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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