Stephanie Casto, LICSW

Stephanie Casto is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in West Virginia with five years of clinical experience. She works with people who face stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, depression, family and parenting concerns, and compassion fatigue. She also lists blended family issues among her focus areas, alongside attachment and adoption-related concerns.

She has spent much of her practice supporting people affected by complex trauma from abuse and neglect. Her work emphasizes emotional regulation and processing past experiences so they have less hold on daily life. That practical focus tends to be direct and skills-oriented rather than abstract.

Stephanie uses methods drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Motivational Interviewing, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She also has experience with Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for children and adolescents and with parent or caregiver involvement when appropriate. These approaches guide how she structures sessions and plans next steps.

Sessions have been offered both online and in person in agency and private practice settings in West Virginia. She describes helping people with common mood concerns, panic, post-traumatic stress, and relationship or communication problems tied to family of origin and blended household dynamics.

Her tone in session is practical and goal-oriented. She helps people learn skills, try new ways of responding, and make step-by-step changes they can manage between sessions.