About Stephanie
Stephanie Gildea is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with eight years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and other challenges. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. Her style is warm and flexible, focused on what a person needs right now.
Stephanie listens first and then helps people set small, doable goals. She prioritizes everyday improvements like better sleep, clearer routines, and stronger coping skills.
Background and approach
She also works with mood swings, impulsivity, substance concerns, and grief, using conversations that feel direct and respectful. Her approach draws on client-centered work, emotionally-focused ideas, and narrative methods to help people tell their story differently. That can mean naming feelings, tracing relationship patterns, or reorganizing how events fit into one’s life story.
Sessions aim to be collaborative rather than prescriptive. Stephanie emphasizes practical supports and resources alongside counseling. She helps people find local services, coaching strategies, or lifestyle adjustments when those make sense.
Her background includes a Masters degree in psychology with a concentration in clinical mental health counseling and years in varied mental health settings. Work with Stephanie moves at a person’s pace. She will adapt methods to fit each person’s goals and day-to-day needs.
The focus is on helping people feel more capable and less overwhelmed as they navigate life changes.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps clients set goals that fit their daily life; this approach is useful for mood concerns, stress, and ADHD-related challenges.Emotionally-focused therapy looks at patterns in feelings and relationships. It helps people identify how emotions drive reactions and then try new ways of connecting and responding, which can be helpful for intimacy and relationship worries.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie will collaborate with each person to choose or adapt methods based on their goals, needs, and what feels helpful in sessions. Together they may try different ways of working and adjust based on what brings progress.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let therapists and clients work visually through relationship patterns and emotional cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for quicker check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter updates, sharing links or worksheets, and staying connected between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- 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
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