About Stefanie
Stefanie Kalski is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and depression. She brings five years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people find clearer ways to manage hard moments. Stefanie speaks English and works with adults in individual therapy.
She believes people know their own stories and already have strengths to build on. In sessions she listens closely and helps clients notice what’s getting in the way of change.
Background and approach
Stefanie frames therapy as a partnership where small steps add up to real progress. Her work draws on body-aware methods alongside evidence-based talk therapies. She mixes Somatic approaches with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Client-Centered listening, and Cognitive Behavioral strategies.
This combination helps people connect physical responses to emotions and learn practical skills for daily life. Stefanie uses straightforward tools to reduce anxiety and manage stress. She helps people practice new ways of responding to old patterns.
Sessions often include breathing, grounding, reflection, and concrete behavior changes that fit into a person’s life. Therapy sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Costs vary with location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled according to therapist availability.
Approaches that connect body and thought in online therapy
Somatic-informed work focuses on how sensations in the body relate to emotions and memories. It helps people notice physical patterns like tightness or shallow breathing and learn simple ways to calm or shift those responses, which can ease anxiety and trauma symptoms.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches people to accept difficult feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, low mood, and situations where avoidance has become a problem.
Attachment-Based ideas explore how early relationships shape current patterns in closeness and trust. This approach can help people understand why they react the way they do in relationships and practice healthier ways of connecting.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to see which methods feel most helpful. Together they set goals and try practical steps, adjusting the plan as needed based on results and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people balancing busy lives. Video calls let therapists observe body language and guide somatic exercises. Phone, live chat, and text messaging provide options when video is not possible or when short check-ins are needed. These formats aim to make consistent support easier to fit into daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English