Stephanie Casto, LICSW

Stephanie Casto is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) practicing in West Virginia with five years of clinical experience. She has worked with clients across the age range and has provided services in agency settings and private practice. Her work often involves people coping with trauma, stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and anger.

She has focused much of her practice on complex trauma related to abuse and neglect. That work centers on helping people learn emotional regulation skills and process difficult experiences so those past events interfere less with daily life. She uses a trauma-informed approach and draws on methods that help people manage strong feelings and symptoms that follow traumatic events.

Stephanie also supports people dealing with parenting and family stress, attachment and adoption-related concerns, caregiver strain, and communication problems. She has experience with mood disorders, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. She helps people facing life changes, isolation, guilt, or struggles with purpose and self-esteem.

Her clinical tools include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Motivational Interviewing, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. Those approaches are used to address symptoms, build coping skills, and work through traumatic memories when appropriate.

Stephanie works in English and does not accept international clients. Many people come to her wanting clearer ways to handle anger and to reduce its impact on relationships and daily functioning. The first step she typically asks clients to take is to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session.

Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions