About Stefanie
Stefanie Kincaid is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina with 12 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and trauma. Stefanie wants to make the first step feel manageable and supportive.
She approaches work with the belief that each person knows their own story. Stefanie looks for strengths clients already have and uses those as a starting point for change.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what the client feels ready to try. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including anxiety, panic, mood disorders, grief, and postpartum depression. She also supports people facing relationship struggles, career stress, parenting strain, fertility and pregnancy-related challenges, and issues with self-image and intimacy.
Stefanie helps people who are navigating life changes, compassion fatigue, or recovery from trauma and abuse. Stefanie draws on short-term, skills-based methods and longer narrative work depending on the situation. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thinking and behavior patterns and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy help when people need clarity and momentum toward goals. Her style is practical and down-to-earth. Stefanie offers concrete tools, conversational reflection, and homework when it helps progress.
She aims to build a steady, realistic plan so clients can try new ways of coping and notice small wins along the way.
Approaches that translate well to online care
CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. It often uses short exercises and home practice to build skills between sessions.DBT or Dialectical Behavior Therapy emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. It is useful when strong emotions, impulsivity, or relationship patterns make daily life harder and can be taught in focused skills practice online.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques from these and other methods to fit each person. That makes therapy more collaborative and tailored to real-life needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and try different ways of working as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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