Stanley Schleifer , LPC

Stanley Schleifer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 33 years of experience, most of which has been spent working in outpatient behavioral health clinics. He focuses on helping adults, including seniors, navigate life transitions, mood concerns, and relationship or family challenges.

Colleagues and clients have described him as understanding, easy to talk to, supportive, and respectful. He adapts treatment to each person’s needs, drawing primarily on cognitive-behavioral therapy alongside a humanistic, client-centered stance. He shares clinical observations and suggestions openly, offering them for the client’s consideration rather than imposing solutions.

Schleifer works with individuals facing depression, anxiety, situational crises, self-esteem struggles, grief and loss, addictions, anger, bipolar concerns, and intimacy-related or communication problems. He also attends to issues that often arise with aging and career-related stress. He has noted the additional stresses brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and offers support to those coping with these novel challenges.

He approaches therapy as a collaborative process and aims to help clients make the positive changes that matter most to them. Stanley Schleifer, LPC, brings steady experience and a respectful, client-focused manner to his work.

DBT and Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches for Online Care

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) helps people build practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. It emphasizes learning concrete strategies for emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness, and can be useful for clients facing mood instability, anger, or patterns of impulsive behavior.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, and stress. It offers structured techniques for problem solving, behavioral activation, and developing coping skills that clients can apply between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. A licensed professional will collaborate with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress and challenges emerge.

Online therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for people with busy schedules, mobility limits, or caregiving responsibilities. These options can make it easier to maintain regular appointments and continue working toward goals despite life changes, while allowing therapists to tailor session format to what works best for each client.