Stanley Schleifer is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than three decades of experience in outpatient behavioral health.
01About Stanley
Stanley Schleifer is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than three decades of experience in outpatient behavioral health. He works with adults, including older adults, and focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. His approach is down-to-earth and conversational, aimed at helping people make practical changes that matter to them.
Stanley typically blends clear, skills-based work with a person-centered attitude. He uses techniques drawn from cognitive-behavioral ideas and from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach coping skills, emotion regulation, and better communication.
Background and approach
Sessions involve active feedback and shared ideas, so people leave with specific strategies to try between meetings. He has long experience supporting people with substance concerns, mood challenges such as bipolar disorder, and relationship or intimacy-related problems. Career stress, anger, and self-esteem are also common topics he addresses.
He also pays attention to aging and geriatric issues when they affect quality of life. Stanley offers straightforward, respectful conversation and practical tools. He aims to tailor work to each person’s situation and preferences.
Over the years he has focused on helping adults manage stress, grief, and the everyday problems that interfere with daily routines. People can expect collaborative sessions that mix teaching, problem solving, and emotional support. His practice is based in Colorado and conducted in English.
02Credentials
- LPC (Colorado)
- License 0004797 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1013040161 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Stanley lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Communication problems
Methods Stanley names
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04Online support
DBT and skills-based approaches for online care
Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on building practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and reducing impulsive behaviors. It uses step-by-step exercises and real-life practice to help people tolerate distress and communicate more clearly.Stanley also uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioral changes. These techniques are applied in brief, concrete ways so people can test new habits between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try approaches, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That means methods can shift over time as needs and preferences change.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and skills coaching, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat allows short real-time check-ins, and text messaging supports quick follow-up and reminders. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins during work breaks, or practicing skills away from the office.
05Questions people ask
What issues does he commonly address?
He works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, bipolar concerns, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related problems, anger, career strain, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
What is his general therapy style?
He blends skills-based methods with a person-centered, collaborative style and shares practical ideas during sessions for people to consider and try.
How long has he been practicing?
He has 33 years of experience, most of it in outpatient behavioral health clinics working with adult clients up to and including seniors.
Where is his practice located and what are his credentials?
He practices in Colorado and holds the LPC credential, listed as CO LPC in his documentation.
Can sessions be held in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
He meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to connect.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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