About Stephanie
Stephanie Safos-Moriarty is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, goal-oriented work to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and relationship concerns. Her manner is compassionate and direct, aiming to make the first steps into therapy feel more manageable.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) along with motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques. Sessions tend to be structured and collaborative, with tools and small skills taught between meetings.
Background and approach
This approach is often used for problems like depression, panic, addiction, and difficulty with self-esteem. Stephanie has worked extensively with trauma, substance use, grief, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people facing parenting strain, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges.
Her background includes experience helping people affected by interpersonal violence and human trafficking. In sessions she helps clients identify patterns, set clear goals, and practice skills that reduce distress. She brings a straightforward style while staying warm and supportive.
That combination is meant to help people build coping strategies they can use day to day. Stephanie is licensed in Florida as an LMHC. She offers care in English and provides several online formats for scheduling flexibility.
Prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire to begin the process.
Therapeutic tools adapted for online care
Stephanie often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is useful for worries, low mood, insomnia, and many stress-related issues. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal habits, which can help with intense emotions and relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Stephanie will talk with clients about goals, try different strategies, and adjust methods based on progress and preferences. The emphasis is on finding what fits the person's life and needs rather than using one fixed method.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill demonstrations, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be used for check-ins, and chat or messaging can support brief coaching or ongoing homework between meetings. These options let people pick the format that works best for their routine and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English