About Stephanie
Stephanie Traver is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 11 years of experience helping people cope with trauma, mood concerns, anxiety, and stressful life changes. She practices from New York and speaks English. Her background includes work with complex trauma, attachment issues, mood disorders such as bipolar and depression, and challenges like addiction and parenting stress.
Her approach blends body-focused somatic work with practical talk therapy to help people notice how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help clients clarify values, steady relationships, and build stronger coping skills. Sessions focus on small, doable steps that match each person’s needs. Stephanie helps clients identify patterns in thinking and behavior and then tests new responses in everyday life.
She offers tools for managing anxiety, regulating mood, reducing avoidance, and addressing grief or anger. For people facing caregiving strain, blended family concerns, or adoption and foster care issues, she works on realistic strategies to reduce overwhelm. Her training as an LCSW and an LISW grounds her clinical choices in social work practice.
She has experience supporting people with attention differences, dissociation, and personality-related concerns while remaining practical and down-to-earth. International clients may be seen depending on scheduling. Therapy begins with a short conversation about goals and a simple plan for change.
Sessions can include talking, body awareness exercises, and homework to try between appointments. The focus is on steady progress and clearer day-to-day coping.
How somatic and values-based therapy work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. Online sessions can include guidance to notice breathing, posture, and bodily sensations to better understand reactions and reduce overwhelm. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small committed actions, which helps with anxiety, depression, and life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how past bonds shape current reactions. In online sessions this approach helps people identify relational patterns and practice new ways of communicating and relating, especially around caregiving and attachment concerns. Stephanie will collaborate with each person to figure out which approach or blend fits best, based on goals, symptoms, and personal preferences. Finding the right mix is part of the work and is adjusted over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and for people in different locations. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions offer simplicity, and live chat or text messaging provides brief check-ins and ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to try somatic exercises, process difficult material, and apply new skills in day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut, Ohio
- Languages
- English