About Stalburn
Stalburn VanSluytman is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience helping adults navigate stress, mood struggles, addiction, and ADHD. He uses straightforward conversation to understand what feels most difficult and what practical steps might help. Stalburn aims to make sessions clear and manageable for someone juggling work and family demands.
He trained in Clinical Social Work and has long used psychodynamic ideas to look at how past patterns affect current behavior.
Background and approach
Over time he added cognitive behavioral techniques to his work and later taught and supervised other clinicians in that approach. Those combined ways of working inform how he helps people change unhelpful habits and think differently about problems. Much of his background includes substance abuse counseling, case management, and community mental health work.
He also spent a decade providing mental health services within the Florida Department of Corrections prior to retiring from that role in 2014. Since then he has volunteered with hospice, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and the American Cancer Society, and has continued part-time quality control work for a community mental health center. Sessions with Stalburn focus on clear goals and step-by-step strategies.
He draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing alongside CBT and psychodynamic perspectives to suit each person's needs. He works in English and offers a patient, direct style for people ready to make steady progress. Stalburn practices from Florida and brings decades of hands-on experience to common concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, anger, relationship strain, and coping with life changes.
He also includes support for people managing ADHD and related day-to-day challenges.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Stalburn uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes; CBT is practical and often focuses on skills that can be practiced between sessions. He also brings mindfulness therapy into sessions, teaching simple attention and breathing practices that help reduce anxiety and improve focus. Motivational interviewing is used when someone is weighing change or struggling with addictive behavior, offering gentle, goal-focused conversation to build commitment.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. He works with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is useful for full sessions and nonverbal cues, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can work for brief check-ins or homework support. These options allow people in Florida to access care with more flexibility and continuity.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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