Stephanie Goossens Alayon

Stephanie Goossens Alayon is a Florida LCSW with five years of experience working directly with adults. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, self-esteem struggles, and the uncertainty that follows life changes. Stephanie speaks English and Spanish and frames life purpose as one of the areas she supports. She uses straightforward, skills-based work in sessions. That can mean practicing new ways to handle anxiety, learning communication techniques for relationship strain, or using mindfulness to reduce reactivity. She also draws on approaches that focus on attachment patterns and short-term goal work to help people clarify priorities. Clients who feel stuck after a major change may work on practical steps forward. Stephanie encourages small experiments between sessions and clear problem-solving during meetings. That often looks like setting one or two doable goals and tracking what helps. Her background includes a decade working with adolescents and young adults, and five years focused on an adult caseload. That experience informs how she notices recurring family of origin themes and patterns of isolation or abandonment that affect current relationships. Sessions are presented in a direct, conversational way. Stephanie tends to combine cognitive strategies, mindfulness practice, and relational understanding so people can recognize patterns and try different responses. The emphasis is on useful skills and clearer choices rather than abstract theory. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and a scheduled first session are the way in. Fees vary by location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How her approaches translate to online sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds influence current connections. Online work can include identifying those patterns and practicing new responses in real time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; online sessions often include worksheets and brief behavioral experiments to use between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides practical tools for managing intense emotions and improving communication, with a focus on skills like distress tolerance and emotion regulation. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. That may mean emphasizing skills practice at first, then shifting toward exploring attachment patterns or problem-solving as needed. Confirm the specific session formats available before booking. When formats are unspecified, ask which options are supported so you can choose what fits your schedule. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time so therapy is more practical alongside work or family responsibilities.