About Stefanie
Stefanie Lui Ten is a counsellor registered with PACFA who has worked in Australia for 11 years. She focuses on stress and anxiety and supports people who are coping with life changes, family and parenting pressures, and low self-esteem. Stefanie writes plainly and keeps sessions practical, helping people talk through what is happening and find steps that feel manageable.
She believes each person knows their own story and brings their own strengths to the work.
Background and approach
In sessions she helps clients identify small, realistic goals and build on the skills they already have. Stefanie aims to make the process straightforward so people can see progress between meetings. Her background includes a decade of hands-on counselling with adults facing panic, social anxiety and trauma-related concerns.
She also addresses caregiver stress, attachment problems and the emotional fallout of separation and divorce. Stefanie offers support for people dealing with guilt, shame and feelings of isolation. Stefanie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to suit each person’s needs.
She is comfortable working in English and Cantonese and tailors sessions to cultural context and communication style. Her approach is collaborative and paced to what feels safe for the client. Stefanie encourages people to take the first step even when it feels hard.
She helps clients turn small changes into clearer coping strategies, improved self-worth and better everyday functioning.
Online approaches that suit busy lives
Stefanie commonly draws on well-established evidence-based techniques that focus on practical symptom relief and skills building. One approach emphasises learning tools to manage anxiety and panic symptoms through breathing, grounding and behavioural experiments to reduce avoidance and increase confidence. Another approach centres on strengthening relationships and attachment patterns by improving communication and understanding how past experiences shape current reactions, which helps with family stress and parenting strains.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Stefanie collaborates with each person to identify which techniques fit their needs, goals and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. She treats the choice of methods as flexible rather than fixed, and checks in regularly about what is helpful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people juggling work, family and other demands. Video calls let conversations feel closer to an in-person session, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break, and live chat or text-based messaging suits quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help make counselling more adaptable to different routines and communication styles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Cantonese
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