About Stephanie
Stephanie Nash is a licensed clinical social worker with nearly three decades of experience. She greets people with calm, direct support and listens without judgment. She helps adults who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing life changes find steadier footing.
Stephanie uses practical, goal-oriented methods in sessions. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and try different actions. She brings mindfulness practices to help with stress and emotional regulation.
Background and approach
Solution-Focused Therapy is used to set small, doable goals and track progress. Her work emphasizes a strengths-based view. Sessions look at what already works and build from there.
She invites clients to set clear goals and tries to keep each visit action-oriented and straightforward. Stephanie has worked in the Washington, District of Columbia area for many years. Her background includes long-term counseling across a wide range of concerns such as trauma, mood disorders, relationship struggles, parenting stress, and ADHD.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and adapts the approach to each person's needs. In partnership with clients she focuses on practical steps that fit daily life. Conversations often include skill practice, problem solving, and planning for follow-through between sessions.
Her aim is to help people feel more capable, calm, and able to move forward.
How Stephanie’s Approaches Work Online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to change how someone feels and acts. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and daily stress by breaking problems into small, manageable steps. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve emotional awareness; these skills can be practiced between sessions to calm intense feelings. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on clear, short-term goals and what is already working; it helps people make steady progress by focusing on practical next steps.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s life and adjust the plan as needed to find the best fit.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth or camera use is a challenge, and messaging or chat can fit brief check-ins, skill practice, or quick problem-solving between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia, Maryland
- Languages
- English
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