Stuart Worley, LPC

Stuart Worley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina. She brings five years of hands-on experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship struggles. Stuart focuses on making therapy a practical step that fits into a person’s everyday life. She offers a warm, accepting therapy style that acknowledges why old habits once helped. Stuart listens without judgment and helps people notice which patterns no longer serve them. She works with parents coping with parenting stress, people navigating grief, and those facing sleep or anger problems. Stuart draws on a mix of approaches to shape each session. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships influence current behavior. She combines that with skills from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and with cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and goals. Stuart pays attention to specific concerns such as ADHD, codependency, adoption and foster care issues, gender dysphoria, and caregiver stress. She also supports people dealing with feelings of emptiness, guilt, shame, and forgiveness work. Clients work together with Stuart to set clear, concrete goals. She emphasizes short-term focused work when it fits and adjusts plans as progress happens. The aim is to help people build practical tools they can use day to day.

How these approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters most and take small committed actions that align with those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by shifting attention from unhelpful thoughts to meaningful steps. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people create more secure ways of connecting and regulating emotion. This approach can benefit relationship and parenting concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear, practical exercises. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger management.

Finding the best approach is part of the work. Stuart collaborates with each person to choose what feels right based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. She may use one approach or combine elements from several to suit the situation and will check in and adjust plans as progress happens.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Many people find remote sessions help fit therapy into busy days, save travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that is useful. Online work can also make it easier to practice skills in real life between sessions and to bring concrete examples into discussion without delaying progress.