LCSW
Stephanie Czarnecki, LCSW
- Experience10 years
- LocationIllinois
- Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Addictions, and Trauma and abuse
- Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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About Stephanie
Stephanie Czarnecki is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with a decade of hands-on experience in mental health care. She draws on a range of evidence-based methods to support people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, mood concerns, and other complex challenges.
Background and approach
Her practice emphasizes collaboration and respect, working with clients to understand symptoms and build individualized plans rather than defining a person by a diagnosis. Her clinical background includes crisis management, substance use and co-occurring conditions, case management, individual and group therapy, and suicide prevention education and intervention.
She also has experience with medication management, anger management, long-term recovery, and marital and family work. Stephanie commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and integrates other approaches such as Internal Family Systems and acceptance-focused strategies to match each person’s needs.
Clients can expect a warm, interactive style that prioritizes compassion, dignity, and practical progress. Treatment goals are set collaboratively, and interventions are tailored to the situation and the individual.
Based in Illinois, she brings both breadth and adaptability to helping people pursue meaningful change and improved day-to-day functioning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an internal-focused method that helps people notice and relate to the different parts of themselves with curiosity and compassion; it is often used to address trauma responses, inner conflict, and patterns that feel stuck. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports clients in clarifying values, developing psychological flexibility, and taking committed action despite difficult thoughts and feelings, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience by offering empathetic, nonjudgmental support to foster self-exploration and growth, useful when someone needs a safe space to process grief, relationship issues, or identity concerns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each client to consider their goals, preferences, and the nature of the presenting concerns, and then tailor techniques from these approaches to fit the client’s unique situation rather than applying a single method uniformly.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging provides flexibility for scheduling and lets clients access consistent care from home or while traveling. These remote formats support continuity of work on skills and insights between sessions and make it easier to fit therapy into busy or changing lives.
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Experience
10+ years
Licensed
Missouri, Illinois
Languages
English