Stalburn VanSluytman
Experienced LCSW blending CBT and psychodynamic care
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stalburn
Stalburn VanSluytman is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, evidence-based approaches to address everyday struggles. He blends cognitive behavioral ideas with psychodynamic insight to help people manage symptoms and change patterns. He draws on 40 years of experience and aims to make therapy straightforward and understandable.
He began studying social behavior as an undergraduate and then moved into case management and substance abuse counseling in New York City.
Background and approach
That led to an accelerated clinical social work degree and a long career in both agency and personal settings. He spent his final decade of employment as a mental health therapist for the Florida Department of Corrections before retiring in 2014.
Across his career he has worked with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, depression, trauma, grief, and a range of mood and life-change issues. He has also addressed concerns such as parenting, eating issues, ADHD, and relationship challenges. He has experience presenting to schools and churches about emotional disorders and spotting symptoms in students.
Training has included psychodynamic clinical social work and formal education in cognitive behavioral therapy, where he has been a certified trainer and supervisor of masters-level therapists. Since retirement he has kept ties to community work and has volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters and health-related organizations. He practices from Florida and provides sessions in English.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Stalburn integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based ideas to help people change unhelpful thoughts and learn practical skills. CBT focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and trying different behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that can lower reactivity and improve coping with stress and strong emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean mixing techniques from different approaches and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation, phone sessions let people talk without video, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or moments when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit regular care into daily routines and to keep working on goals from home or while traveling.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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