About Stanley
Stanley Schleifer is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 33 years of experience. He works mainly with adults and seniors and focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. His style is direct and respectful, aimed at helping people feel heard and understood.
He draws on approaches that emphasize learning new skills and changing unhelpful patterns. Sessions are conversational and collaborative, with clear suggestions offered for clients to consider.
Background and approach
Stanley adjusts his methods to match each person's needs and situation. Clients meet to talk through current problems, learn coping strategies, and build better ways of handling strong emotions. He helps with relationship and intimacy-related concerns, communication problems, and issues tied to work or aging.
Substance use and bipolar disorder are also listed focus areas. Stanley has a long background in outpatient behavioral health clinics across Colorado. That setting shaped his practical approach to everyday struggles and crises.
He combines problem-solving with support, saying what he thinks and inviting clients to weigh those ideas. For people navigating grief or big life changes, he offers straightforward techniques alongside empathetic listening. The goal is to make steady, workable changes that fit the person’s life and values.
He encourages collaboration and keeps sessions focused on what matters most to the individual.
DBT and skill-based care delivered online
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive behaviors. It emphasizes mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and better interpersonal skills, which can help with anxiety, mood swings, and relationship strain.Stanley applies skill-based methods in a collaborative way. He works with clients to decide which techniques fit their goals and life circumstances. That process is shared, so clients can try options and give feedback about what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter conversation is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, handling brief coping strategies between sessions, or when typing feels easier than talking.
These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to access support from different locations. The therapist and client will discuss which formats best match the client’s needs and practical constraints, and adjust that plan over time.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English