About Desiree
Desiree Steadman-Gallegos is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She listens with respect and offers straightforward support to help people move forward. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at clear steps rather than jargon.
With 18 years of experience, Desiree draws on several therapy approaches to match each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult thoughts while focusing on values-based action.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help break unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior. Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas guide work on relationships and intimacy concerns. She works with concerns such as parenting strain, family conflict, grief, career stress, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
Desiree also supports people dealing with ADHD, LGBT issues, anger, and major life transitions. Additional focus areas include communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, and multicultural or immigration-related stress. Sessions are goal-oriented and collaborative.
Desiree creates a plan tailored to each person's goals and pace. She emphasizes practical strategies alongside emotional processing so people gain tools they can use between sessions. People who choose Desiree tend to want a respectful, down-to-earth therapist who will listen and offer concrete steps.
She aims to empower clients to make changes that fit their lives and values.
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values and goals. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, and it often includes simple homework to practice new skills between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Desiree will discuss these methods with each person and collaborate to decide what fits best based on symptoms, goals, and preferences. That process can change over time as goals evolve, and the therapist and client review progress together.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people see facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, processing thoughts in writing, or scheduling around busy days. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school routines while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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