Galina Storozhenko
Calm-focused therapy with practical tools
LCSW California
- Experience
- 17 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English, Russian
About Galina
Galina Storozhenko is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in California who draws on 17 years of professional experience to support people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression.
Background and approach
She works from a strengths-based perspective that treats clients as the experts on their own lives, helping them build on existing resources to address painful patterns and move toward meaningful change. Galina emphasizes practical coping skills alongside exploration of values and goals, creating individualized plans that fit each person's situation.
Her background includes work with a range of concerns such as abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, communication problems, guilt and shame, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and workplace difficulties. Galina aims to empower clients by offering guidance, tools, and support while honoring the client’s own insights and pace.
Sessions are conducted in English and Russian for residents of California, and she uses a collaborative, compassionate approach to help clients take the steps they choose toward greater well-being.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Galina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms such as anxiety, mood difficulties, and panic, and it often includes structured exercises and skill practice. ACT emphasizes clarifying values, increasing psychological flexibility, and learning to relate differently to painful thoughts and feelings, which can help with grief, trauma responses, and life transitions.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with clients to assess needs, preferences, and goals and then adapt techniques from these methods to fit each person's circumstances. This means treatment can shift over time as progress and priorities evolve, with the therapist offering guidance while honoring the client's own expertise about their life.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for scheduling and location. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care around busy lives, allow reviewable written exchanges for some clients, and enable access to licensed professionals without commuting, while preserving the same clinical approaches and supportive collaboration used in traditional settings.
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Experience
17+ years
Licensed
California
Languages
English, Russian