Sylvia Stogner , LCSW

Sylvia Stogner is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, anger, and ADHD. She practices in Mississippi and offers sessions in English. Sylvia focuses on issues many women face, including isolation, life transitions, and relationship struggles that affect day-to-day life.

Sylvia keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She creates a calm setting where clients can talk openly about difficult feelings. Conversations focus on real problems and usable steps clients can try between sessions.

Her background includes long experience in public and private settings, working with people across schools, foster care, adoption contexts, and home-based support. That history shapes a flexible, down-to-earth style that values usable coping skills and clearer communication.

Sylvia tends to address patterns such as abandonment, attachment concerns, impulsivity, and difficulty with forgiveness. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, chronic pain, caregiver stress, panic attacks, and mood shifts. Goals are set together and adjusted as needs change.

Sessions may use talk, practical exercises, and simple planning to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Sylvia emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes and helps people build routines that fit their lives.

How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions

Sylvia uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear, practical change. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding to stress and anxiety. This method teaches simple skills for managing panic, worry, and low mood in daily life. Another approach centers on coping with trauma and abuse by stabilizing emotions and building steady routines. It aims to reduce overwhelming reactions and improve day-to-day functioning.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Sylvia will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest methods that match your situation. Together you’ll try techniques, review what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so the work fits your life and priorities.

Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let you see facial cues and use visual tools, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging provides shorter check-ins or follow-up between appointments. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care, fit sessions into work or caregiving routines, and stay connected when travel or distance would otherwise be a barrier.