About Stephanie
Stephanie Kujawa is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 13 years of professional experience in Illinois.
Background and approach
She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, self-esteem concerns, and life transitions, and brings extensive experience addressing issues such as abandonment and attachment difficulties, body image, caregiver stress, communication and control problems, and mood and panic-related disorders.
Her practice emphasizes a warm, interactive therapeutic stance that treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion without relying on stigmatizing labels. Stephanie adapts conversations and treatment plans to each person’s needs, drawing on evidence-based strategies to address problems like social anxiety, isolation, financial stress, pregnancy and childbirth adjustments, and seasonal mood changes.
She works in English and provides sessions from Illinois using a variety of remote formats to accommodate different preferences. Clients who choose Stephanie can expect a collaborative process aimed at practical coping and emotional insight.
She encourages those ready to pursue change to take the first step, offering support and guidance tailored to individual goals and circumstances.
Evidence-Based Methods and Online Options
Stephanie integrates several evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address symptoms like anxiety, depression, relationship stress, and mood or panic-related challenges. Cognitive-behavioral approaches help identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teach practical coping skills for managing anxiety, panic attacks, and mood disturbances. Psychodynamic-informed work explores patterns in relationships and attachment, helping people understand how past experiences influence present emotions and interpersonal dynamics.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Stephanie works collaboratively with each person to determine which techniques best match their goals, needs, and preferences. Treatment plans and session content are adapted over time so the methods remain useful and relevant to the client's progress.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to continue work from home or elsewhere in Illinois. These formats allow for consistent contact and tailored pacing, so people can choose the style of communication that feels most comfortable while working toward their goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English