Stephanie Czarnecki, LCSW

Stephanie Czarnecki is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Illinois with ten years of hands-on clinical experience. She focuses on crisis management, trauma, substance use and co-occurring disorders, and a wide range of mental and behavioral health concerns, bringing practical skills from both clinical and case management roles.

Her experience spans individual and group therapy, marital and family therapy, anger management, medication coordination, long-term recovery planning, and suicide prevention education and intervention. She has supported people facing depression, anxiety, addiction, trauma, OCD, and ADHD/ADD, and has experience assisting individuals with more complex conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, dissociative disorders, traumatic brain injury, and autism spectrum presentations.

Stephanie uses a collaborative, client-centered approach that emphasizes respect, dignity, and compassion. She does not reduce a person to a diagnosis but uses diagnostic understanding to help tailor individualized treatment. Her clinical style is warm and interactive, meeting each person where they are and adapting strategies to fit the situation.

Her approach is eclectic and evidence-informed, drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Client-Centered Therapy to shape collaborative treatment plans and practical next steps.