About Stephanie
Stephanie Gildea is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Massachusetts. She brings eight years of experience helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, mood and personality concerns, addictions, and grief. She also supports people facing relationship tension, parenting strain, sleep problems, impulsivity, and postpartum depression.
Stephanie works in a straightforward, person-focused way. She listens first, then helps clients name problems and set small, clear goals. Sessions aim to be practical - talking through feelings, trying new ways of responding, and building everyday coping skills.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the person’s experience, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy, which helps people understand and shift patterns in close relationships. She also uses Narrative Therapy to help people reframe difficult stories and find new meanings. Stephanie says she is flexible and willing to go the extra mile to connect clients with resources.
She focuses on making therapy feel usable for daily life, not just something that happens in the office. That can mean homework, coaching-style support, or checking in on progress between sessions. She earned a Master of Arts in Psychology with a concentration in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and holds the LMHC credential.
Sessions are offered in English and are provided through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and aims to make the client feel heard and understood. Online sessions use that same stance - the therapist listens, reflects, and helps clients decide what matters most to them. This approach suits people who need empathy and steady support while they sort through feelings.Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and change patterns in close relationships by naming emotions and testing new responses. Online work can include role-play, reflecting on recent interactions, and planning small changes to try between sessions. This is useful for people wrestling with intimacy issues, relationship pain, or strong emotional reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Stephanie will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adapts techniques over time based on what proves helpful and what the client prefers.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual cues help, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English