About Vasiliki
Vasiliki Stratikopoulou is an Illinois-licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping people navigate relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and addictive behaviors.
Background and approach
With seven years of experience she supports clients confronting parenting challenges, anger, and major life transitions while also addressing related issues such as abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, communication problems, and divorce or separation. Her practice emphasizes compassionate, individualized care that fosters self-understanding and practical coping skills.
Vasiliki draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide clients through processing painful experiences, managing mood and panic symptoms, and rebuilding connection after ruptures and losses. She aims to empower people to uncover life purpose, reduce isolation, and regain emotional balance through collaborative goal-setting and skill development.
Sessions are offered in English and Greek and are available to international clients. Vasiliki integrates coaching elements when appropriate to support personal growth and practical change, helping clients translate insights into sustainable daily routines and improved relationships.
Evidence-Based Techniques and Flexible Online Care
One approach used emphasizes practical skill-building to manage mood symptoms and panic attacks, teaching concrete strategies for emotion regulation and coping that can reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning. Another common focus is trauma-informed work that helps clients process painful experiences, address grief, and repair interpersonal ruptures through guided reflection and paced exposure when appropriate.
Finding the right approach is collaborative rather than predetermined. The therapist will work with each person to identify priorities, try techniques that fit their needs, and adjust the plan over time so methods align with goals, preferences, and life circumstances.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care during transitions, manage ongoing coaching or coping work between sessions, and access support when in-person visits are not convenient.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Greek