About Stefanie
Stefanie Kalski is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, and depression. She brings five years of clinical experience to each session and focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings. Stefanie speaks English and offers care using several online formats to fit different schedules.
She approaches therapy with the belief that each person knows their story best.
Background and approach
Stefanie builds on individuals' strengths and helps them name goals they want to reach. Sessions are straightforward and aimed at manageable change rather than abstract theory. Stefanie uses proven tools to break down overwhelming problems.
She may work on skills for handling painful thoughts, reducing avoidance, and increasing actions that match a person’s values. Homework and simple exercises are often part of the process so progress continues outside sessions. Her style is warm and collaborative.
Stefanie listens closely and offers reflections, options, and small challenges when appropriate. She encourages self-compassion while helping people try new behaviors that support better daily functioning. Stefanie has a practical focus on parenting stress, relationship patterns linked to attachment, and mood regulation.
She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiving demands, adoption and foster care concerns, and identity issues such as kink and alternative sex culture. Her background and methods are chosen to help people make steady, sustainable changes.
Approaches to change and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take meaningful actions despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems alive; it is often used for anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current responses and can help with parenting stress, self-esteem, and relationship patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Stefanie combines elements of these approaches as needed and adjusts methods based on how someone responds in sessions.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls let sessions feel similar to in-person meetings, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit support into a lunch break or to send notes between sessions. Using these options helps people keep therapy consistent while matching the format to their daily routine and comfort.
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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