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Stephanie believes that everyone is deserving of a safe place to work through life’s difficulties so she strives to create a warm, welcoming environment that promotes one’s highest potential. Stephanie has walked alongside many young adults, mature adults, and couples through difficult periods of life, transitions, and choices. Stephanie understands that no single approach is the right one for every individual so is trained in a range of modalities. She views therapy as a joint venture where combined knowledge and skills are used to determine the best path of treatment and successful outcomes. A large portion of her work is with people across gender, cultural, and sexuality spectrum.
During the first therapy session, you can expect to establish a foundation for your therapeutic relationship and begin the process of exploring your concerns. Remember that every therapy session is unique to your individual needs and goals. The therapist will tailor the session to your circumstances, ensuring that you feel heard, supported, and empowered to make positive changes in your life.
A holistic approach is utilized to demonstrate how powerful connectivity of the mind, body, and spirit can be in the healing process and with equipping oneself in successful goal achievement.
My ideal clients are those eager to grow, change, and improve but might not yet have the tools or the guidance to succeed.
Other specialties
I identify as
Attachment-based
In my counseling practice, I use an attachment-based approach by helping clients understand how early relationships and emotional experiences shape the way they connect with others, regulate emotions, and view themselves. I pay attention to patterns of trust, closeness, abandonment fears, emotional withdrawal, or people-pleasing, while creating a therapeutic relationship that feels emotionally safe, consistent, and supportive. Through this process, clients can explore relational wounds, increase self-awareness, and begin building healthier, more secure ways of connecting with themselves and others.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
In my counseling practice, I utilize emotionally focused therapy by helping clients identify, understand, and process the deeper emotions that influence behaviors, reactions, and relationship patterns. I support clients in moving beneath surface-level responses such as anger, withdrawal, or defensiveness to better understand unmet needs, fears, and vulnerabilities. Whether working with individuals or relationships, I help clients strengthen emotional awareness, foster more secure emotional connections, and develop healthier ways of communicating and responding to themselves and others.
Relational
In my counseling practice, I use a relational approach by recognizing that healing often happens within the context of safe, authentic connection. I emphasize the therapeutic relationship as an important space for trust, emotional exploration, and corrective experiences. I help clients examine interpersonal patterns, boundaries, communication styles, and the ways past relationships may influence present dynamics. Through collaboration, empathy, and genuine connection, I support clients in developing healthier, more fulfilling relationships both within and outside of therapy.
Strength-Based
In my counseling practice, I take a strength-based approach by helping clients recognize their resilience, capabilities, and existing internal resources, even during difficult seasons of life. Rather than focusing solely on problems or symptoms, I work collaboratively to identify strengths, values, coping skills, and past successes that can support growth and healing. I believe clients are more than the challenges they face, and I aim to empower them by building confidence, fostering hope, and highlighting their capacity for change and meaningful progress.
Trauma-Focused CBT
In my counseling practice, I incorporate trauma-focused CBT by helping clients understand the impact of traumatic experiences on thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and nervous system responses. I support clients in identifying unhelpful beliefs that may have developed from trauma, such as shame, guilt, fear, or self-blame, and work collaboratively to challenge and reframe those patterns. I integrate coping skills, emotional regulation tools, grounding strategies, and psychoeducation to help clients feel more empowered, while moving at a pace that prioritizes emotional safety and stabilization. I am also trained in Jungian EMDR.
1 rating with written reviews
April 24, 2026
Stephanie made me feel understood very quickly. I appreciated that she was direct without being judgmental, curious without making assumptions, and able to help me organize complicated relationship and attachment patterns in a way that felt clear and useful. I left the session feeling seen, challenged in a healthy way, and hopeful about continuing the work.