Stephanie Feliciano
Straightforward support for parenting and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stephanie
Stephanie Feliciano is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and practices from Illinois. Parents and adults looking for help with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting, grief, or changes in life will find a direct, compassionate presence in her work.
Sessions are straightforward and conversational. Stephanie listens without judgment and helps people sort through what feels most urgent. She blends clinical methods with an open, intuitive style so clients can leave a session feeling clearer and more able to act.
Background and approach
Her approach emphasizes understanding how thoughts, feelings, and relationships interact. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral work and draws on emotionally focused ideas to help people name painful patterns and try new ways of connecting. Stephanie also brings existential and Jungian perspectives when meaning, identity, or deeper personal themes are central.
Clients can expect warm honesty. Stephanie aims to create a space where people can speak plainly about hard things and plan steps forward. That may include coping skills for anxiety, communication practice for strained relationships, or guidance through parenting and life transitions.
She offers multiple session formats to fit busy schedules, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. New clients in Illinois start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Stephanie often combines client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy. Client-centered work means the therapist follows the client's lead, listens closely, and helps people feel heard so they can decide what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes that reduce stress and anxiety.She also draws on emotionally-focused therapy when relationship patterns and attachment are central to the concern. That approach helps people name emotions, practice new ways of connecting, and repair difficult interactions. Together these methods offer tools for coping, clearer communication, and stronger emotional understanding.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie treats therapy as a collaboration and will help decide which methods fit a client's goals and preferences. That choice can shift over time as needs change and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to keep consistent appointments, manage parenting or work demands, and follow through on the practical steps discussed in sessions.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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