About Stephanie
Stephanie Feliciano is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She focuses on practical steps that bring more calm and clarity. Stephanie uses a warm, direct style so clients can speak plainly about what’s hard and get tools that fit daily life.
She blends talk therapy with attention to how the body holds stress. That means sessions may include noticing breath, posture, or bodily sensations alongside discussion.
Background and approach
The goal is to reduce overwhelm and help people feel more present in their own lives. Stephanie draws on several therapy approaches when they fit a person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thought and action.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and working at the client’s own pace. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift emotional patterns that get in the way of close relationships. In practice, sessions are straightforward and conversational.
Stephanie aims to create a calm space where someone can try new ways of coping and return to everyday responsibilities with less strain. She brings 15 years of experience as an LCSW and uses that background to offer steady guidance. Sessions are available in English and Spanish and take place online by video, phone, chat, or text.
Scheduling follows a short matching questionnaire and a plan is built around what the client wants to change. Stephanie works from Illinois and holds the LCSW credential IL LCSW 149.017813.
How somatic and talk therapy translate online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how emotions show up in the body. Online sessions can include guiding a person to notice breath, posture, and sensations while talking about what feels difficult. This can help with stress, anxiety, trauma reactions, and body-focused concerns.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's pace. In an online setting this means the therapist mirrors concerns, offers space, and helps the person choose goals that feel right to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and actions and introduces practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT online often uses homework and short, focused conversations to practice new skills between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what is working and what is not.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options make scheduling easier around work, caregiving, or mobility limits. Many people find that having multiple formats helps them keep progress steady while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish