Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Depression
How Stephanie works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Licensed in
- West Virginia
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Stephanie
Stephanie Casto is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) practicing in West Virginia. She has five years of experience working with people facing trauma, mood concerns, and life stressors. Stephanie offers online and in-person care and focuses on helping clients build skills to feel steadier day to day.
Her work often centers on people who have experienced complex trauma from abuse or neglect. She helps them learn emotional regulation skills and process difficult memories so past events interfere less with current life.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with depression, anxiety, grief, and anger. Stephanie uses practical, evidence-based approaches in sessions. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and develop coping steps.
She uses Trauma-Focused techniques and EMDR-related methods to support processing traumatic memories when people are ready. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person’s comfort and goals. Stephanie aims for clear, manageable steps rather than long lists of homework.
Parents and caregivers can expect straightforward guidance about supporting children and teens when appropriate. People often come for help with family stress, parenting strain, low self-esteem, or life transitions such as career changes and caregiving roles. Stephanie pays attention to how attachment, abandonment, and family-of-origin issues affect current relationships and mood.
Her style is down-to-earth and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on building skills that transfer to daily life. She encourages small changes that add up to better coping and greater emotional balance.
What Stephanie works with
Everything Stephanie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Stephanie's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Stephanie lists
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Therapy here often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT breaks problems into small, manageable steps like tracking thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. EMDR-related and Trauma-Focused methods are used to help people process painful memories in a paced way, combining discussion with targeted techniques to reduce distress around past events.Choosing the right approach is a team process. The therapist will ask about your history, current struggles, and what you hope to change. Together you will try methods that match those goals and adjust the plan as needed so the work feels useful and tolerable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video works well for in-depth sessions and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, and caregiving responsibilities.
Questions people ask about Stephanie
What kinds of problems does Stephanie help with?
She helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and trauma-related reactions. She also supports concerns like self-esteem, parenting strain, career change, and caregiving stress.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is practical and collaborative. Sessions focus on learning coping skills, processing difficult memories at a safe pace, and setting realistic goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years of clinical experience working with clients across ages and needs, including work with complex trauma, abuse, and neglect.
What credentials and location are on record?
She holds a West Virginia Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential, listed as LICSW, and practices in West Virginia.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; services are provided to people within the relevant region.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and getting started work?
Cost varies by location and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.