Stephanie Silva, LCSW

Stephanie Silva is an LCSW with 14 years of experience based in Florida. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anger, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or life changes. She also supports clients navigating parenting challenges, intimacy and sexuality concerns, and career or identity questions.

Before private practice, she worked in a range of settings connected to the military and medical systems. Her background includes deployment case management, emergency room social work, and family advocacy roles. That work brought regular collaboration with shelters, victim advocates, child protective services, and community agencies.

Her approach mixes cognitive behavioral techniques with dialectical behavior ideas and elements of client-centered work. She aims to help people notice unhelpful patterns, practice new skills, and set realistic goals. Sessions are interactive and focused on concrete steps rather than abstract theory.

Stephanie describes herself as respectful and engaged in session. She emphasizes working with each person to design a plan that targets specific problems and goals. The focus is practical - learning skills for handling anger, managing anxiety, improving communication, or coping with grief.

She has experience across a wide set of concerns including trauma and abuse, LGBT issues, ADHD, caregiver stress, end-of-life and hospice matters, and financial or multicultural stressors. People interested in starting are asked to follow the site process to match and schedule a first session.

How her approaches translate to online sessions