About Stuart
Stuart Worley is a licensed professional counselor practicing in South Carolina. She brings five years of therapy experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and relationship struggles. Stuart aims to create an accepting, encouraging space where people can begin to make changes that matter.
She believes difficult patterns once served a purpose. In sessions she names those patterns without judgment and looks at how they affect life now.
Background and approach
She works with parenting concerns, grief, sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue among other struggles. Stuart uses a blend of methods to fit each person. She draws on attachment-based work to look at early bonds, cognitive behavioral ideas to shift thoughts and behaviors, and dialectical skills for emotion regulation.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure about change. Therapy sessions are practical and straightforward. Stuart tailors conversations and exercises to the person in front of her and focuses on small, doable steps.
She also pays attention to family patterns, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and communication problems. People who come for help can expect clear goals and a calm, nonjudgmental tone. Stuart aims to help people recognize what is keeping them stuck and build new ways of coping.
She welcomes questions about how therapy might fit a person’s life.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Stuart commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy during sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while identifying personal values and taking steps that match those values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and trouble making meaningful changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they show up now, which is useful for communication problems, attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and relationship struggles.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Stuart will listen to a person's goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust the plan as needed. She encourages questions about techniques and involves the person in choosing what feels most helpful for them.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills between sessions, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to connect from different locations and schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English