Stephanie Mastroantonio

Stephanie Mastroantonio is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Colorado with nine years of practice supporting people through major life changes. She focuses on helping clients build self-compassion, improve communication, and move past painful emotional patterns. Stephanie aims to create a calm, steady space for people to talk and reflect.

She uses tools from mindfulness and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small, practical shifts. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas guide values-based choices and committed action when life feels stuck. Attachment-informed work helps when early relationship patterns keep showing up in current relationships.

Stephanie often supports women, caregivers, and people dealing with workplace stress or family-of-origin issues. She also addresses concerns related to adoption and foster care, caregiver strain, and parenting challenges. Common areas she helps with include coping with life changes, career questions, sleep problems, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.

Her sessions emphasize clear communication skills, rebuilding trust with yourself and others, and easing guilt or shame. She blends practical coaching steps with deeper emotional work so clients can try new behaviors between sessions. The tone is warm and collaborative rather than prescriptive.

Stephanie pays careful attention to multicultural factors that shape a person’s experience. She helps people weigh options, set realistic goals, and practice small changes that add up over time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability.

How mindfulness and ACT inform online work

Stephanie blends Mindfulness Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients notice reactions and choose actions that match their values. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can support sleep difficulties, stress, and emotional overwhelm. ACT emphasizes noticing thoughts without getting stuck and making small moves toward what matters, useful for life transitions and chronic worries.

She also draws on Attachment-Based ideas to look at relationship patterns and how they show up now. Together these approaches help clients identify the patterns they want to change and practice new ways of relating in everyday life. Stephanie works collaboratively to find the mix that fits each person's goals and preferences rather than prescribing one fixed method.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy schedule and keeping continuity during transitions. Because session formats are not specified in the profile, confirm current session options before booking. Online meetings can make it easier to attend when time is limited, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove travel time so people can focus on the work between sessions.