Stephanie Southard , LCSW

Stephanie Southard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 26 years of experience helping individuals, families, and couples navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, trauma, and relationship challenges. She trained with an MA in Social Work from Adelphi University in 1999 and has built a practice grounded in evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy, while also incorporating attachment-based, client-centered, ACT, and DBT-informed techniques to meet each person's needs. Stephanie creates a warm, nonjudgmental environment where clients can explore difficult thoughts and patterns and practice new skills through exercises and role play.

Based on Long Island, New York, Stephanie blends practical strategies with a focus on meaning and reduced conflict, aiming to help clients live more peaceful and fulfilling lives with manageable stress. Her areas of focus include depression, anxiety, addictions, parenting and family dynamics, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep issues, anger management, career concerns, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and a wide range of related life challenges such as abandonment, blended-family difficulties, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and communication problems.

She is familiar with systems including domestic violence response, child protective services, courts, community resources, and psychiatric diagnoses and medications, and she approaches unfamiliar issues with a willingness to learn in order to provide informed, client-centered care. Stephanie offers therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for clients both in the United States and internationally.