Stef Kozlowski
I'm Stef, a licensed clinical social worker and registered yoga teacher. I work primarily with adults who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, stuck, or stretched too thin by the demands of life. I also specialize in women's mental health, including pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting. I became a therapist because I know how easy it is to get caught up in taking care of everyone else while ignoring your own needs. Clients often tell me they appreciate that I am warm, direct, and genuine. Therapy with me is collaborative, practical, and sometimes includes humor when it helps.
I’m Stef, a licensed clinical social worker and registered yoga teacher. My background spans multiple levels of care and a wide range of mental health issues.
My background in both mental health and yoga informs the way I work. While we'll focus on understanding thoughts, emotions, and patterns, I also pay attention to how stress shows up in the body and how healing often involves reconnecting with ourselves as a whole person.
First session
The first session is about getting to know you: your goals, your story, and what you’d like out of therapy. We’ll talk through what’s been going on and decide together how to move forward. I use approaches like CBT and DBT to help build practical tools for managing difficult thoughts, emotions, and stress. I also value exploring the deeper patterns, relationships, and experiences that have shaped how you see yourself and move through the world. My goal is to help you better understand yourself while creating meaningful and lasting change.
Strengths
I believe therapy works best when it feels like a genuine connection, so I show up as my real self, and I encourage you to do the same. My style is warm, direct, and collaborative. I believe therapy should feel like a real conversation. I will support and challenge you when needed, and I also believe humor can be an important part of the process when it fits. Outside the office, you’ll usually find me chasing my two kids, hanging with my golden retriever, or fitting in a workout.
Ideal clients
I work mostly with adults and some older teens who are navigating things like anxiety, overwhelm, life transitions, relationship stress, trauma, or grief. I also specialize in women’s health concerns, including pregnancy, postpartum, and the realities of parenting. I tend to be warm, direct (in a gentle, non-intimidating way), and collaborative. And when it fits, I’ll bring in some humor, because therapy doesn’t have to feel heavy all the time to be meaningful.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT to help clients identify unhelpful thought patterns, build healthier coping skills, and create practical changes that improve their daily functioning and emotional well-being.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I use ACT to help clients build psychological flexibility, reduce struggle with difficult thoughts and feelings, and move toward actions that align with their values.
Couples Counseling
In couples work, I help partners strengthen communication, navigate conflict more effectively, rebuild trust, and deepen emotional connection in a supportive, nonjudgmental space.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I incorporate DBT techniques to support emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and healthier relationship dynamics, especially for clients navigating intense emotions or stress.
Psychodynamic
I integrate psychodynamic approaches to explore how past experiences, attachment patterns, and unconscious processes may shape current emotions, relationships, and behaviors.
Location
Virtual sessions