About Sylwia
Sylwia Wielgosz is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 14 years of experience. Sylwia centers care on practical goals and clear steps that help people manage relationship struggles, addiction concerns, intimacy questions, and attention-related challenges. Sylwia emphasizes straightforward skill-building.
Sessions include teaching coping strategies, practicing new ways to communicate, and making small plans that fit daily life. Sylwia also offers information about how certain experiences shape reactions and helps people use that information to make different choices.
Background and approach
People who seek help often face complex backgrounds such as trauma, identity-based pressures, or nontraditional relationship structures. Sylwia has experience working with kink and alternative sexuality communities, polyamory, adoption and foster care histories, and neurodiversity. The focus is on understanding personal history and creating practical steps forward.
Therapy blends evidence-based techniques and a client-centered stance. Sylwia draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment work, attachment-focused thinking, cognitive behavioral skills, and dialectical behavior tools. The therapist and client set clear tasks and track progress together.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sylwia aims to help people build a personalized blueprint for daily life - better self-soothing, clearer boundaries, and stronger relationships - so they can rely on skills between appointments.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, addictive behaviors, and making value-driven changes in daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationship patterns and helps people build safer, more trusting ways of relating. It is often used when relationship patterns or intimacy concerns are central. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and perspective, offering a respectful space to be heard while the therapist follows the client's lead.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your situation and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Goals, tasks, and techniques are adjusted over time so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video is useful for face-to-face interaction and practicing communication skills. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break. Live chat or text lets people check in between appointments and keep momentum during the week. These options make it possible to continue work whether schedules or locations change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English