Stephanie Nash, LICSW, MD, LCSW-C

Stephanie Nash is a licensed social worker with nearly three decades of experience helping adults find steadier footing. She listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her plain, steady manner helps those feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, or major life changes.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness practices, and solution-focused techniques to help clients change unhelpful thoughts and build new routines. Sessions emphasize small, manageable goals that can reduce stress and improve daily functioning. Stephanie also addresses trauma, relationship problems, intimacy issues, and caregiver strain with attention to each person’s priorities.

Her background includes long-term clinical work in the District of Columbia and nearby Maryland. She brings experience across mood disorders, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and trauma-related concerns, while tailoring interventions to what the individual needs right now. That practical orientation guides session planning and follow-up.

Clients can expect collaborative conversations that identify useful skills and realistic steps. Stephanie highlights strengths and past successes to make change less overwhelming. She helps people weigh options, practice new behaviors, and track progress between visits.

Therapy begins with listening and building a plan together. Over time the focus can shift from problem reduction to strengthening coping and life structure. Stephanie aims to make therapy understandable, manageable, and aligned with each person’s goals.

How CBT, Mindfulness, and Solution-Focused Work Online

Stephanie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thought patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT sessions online include identifying specific thoughts, trying new behaviors, and practicing homework between meetings to see real change.

She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. Those skills can help with stress, grief, and emotional overwhelm and are easy to practice between sessions.

Solution-Focused Therapy is used to identify immediate, practical steps that move someone toward their goals. This approach centers on small, measurable changes you can try quickly to build momentum.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set goals, try interventions, and adjust the plan based on what helps most.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.