Stephanie Charles , LCSW

Stephanie Charles is a New York-licensed LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) with eight years of professional experience. She has worked with people facing addictions, relationship challenges, family conflicts, and struggles with motivation, self-esteem, and confidence, offering practical support grounded in professional clinical training.

Stephanie approaches each person as the expert of their own story, looking for the strengths and resources clients already possess and building from there. She emphasizes collaboration and respect for individual goals, believing that those strengths are central to overcoming life’s challenges. Recognizing that seeking help takes courage, Stephanie offers steady encouragement and guidance throughout the therapeutic process to help clients move toward a more fulfilling and happier life.

Evidence-Based and Strengths-Focused Online Care

Stephanie Charles works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize practical coping skills. These approaches focus on teaching concrete strategies to manage stress, motivation, mood, and patterns that contribute to relationship or addictive behaviors, helping clients apply new skills to everyday situations.

She also uses a strengths-focused, collaborative stance that centers the client’s own knowledge and goals. This perspective aims to bolster self-esteem and confidence by identifying existing resources and building on them together, making treatment personally relevant and goal oriented.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process; Stephanie partners with each person to determine which techniques best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. Through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels, allowing consistent access to licensed professionals without the need for travel.