About Stefanie
Stefanie Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin. She brings 14 years of experience in mental health and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, mood challenges, and relationship strain. She aims for clear, practical conversations rather than long lectures.
Sessions center on what a person wants to change and on building doable skills to cope better day to day. Stefanie uses a person-centered way of working that adapts to each individual's needs and goals.
Background and approach
Her background includes inpatient hospital work, intensive outpatient programs, in-home therapy, case management, and outpatient counseling. Those settings gave her experience with a wide range of concerns, from depression and complex trauma to severe and persistent mental illness. She has also supported people dealing with grief, parenting stress, caregiver strain, and job-related burnout.
Stefanie relies on methods rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and influenced by Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She also draws on mindfulness practices and eye movement work for trauma when appropriate. In sessions she focuses on practical strategies, skill building, and problem solving tailored to each person.
She values collaboration and straightforward feedback. Stefanie understands the pressure of stigma and family struggles and wants to make it easier for people to reach out for help. Her goal is helping people find manageable ways to feel steadier and more able to handle life's demands.
How Stefanie's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a working relationship so people can set their own goals and find what helps them most. This approach fits many issues like stress, relationship strain, and self-esteem concerns because it adapts to each person's priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thoughts and actions and teaches simple skills to change unhelpful habits. It is often used for anxiety, depression, social phobia, and mood disorders to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It can be useful for mood instability, anger, and difficulties with intense feelings by teaching ways to regulate emotion and handle conflict.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try out techniques, and adjust direction based on what helps. The focus is on what works for the person rather than a fixed set of techniques.
Online therapy with Stefanie uses video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions more flexible. Video calls are suited to deeper conversational work, phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth needs, and messaging or chat can support brief updates, homework, or quick skill practice between calls. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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