About Stephanie
Stephanie Andrews is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 16 years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety, relationship struggles, family conflict, and trauma and abuse. She aims to create a welcoming space where people can speak honestly and be heard.
Stephanie helps people sort through strong emotions and confusing life moments. She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating, like communication breakdowns or family of origin issues.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with sexual assault and abuse, infidelity, and post-traumatic stress. In sessions she uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help clients make changes. That can mean learning new ways to communicate, setting boundaries, or developing coping steps for anxiety and stress.
Work often moves at a steady pace so people can try things between sessions and report back. She also brings experience helping with career questions and life purpose. Conversations may include how work stress affects relationships, or how guilt and shame show up in daily choices.
Stephanie emphasizes small, doable steps toward clearer decisions and more self-compassion. Many clients start therapy feeling unsure. Stephanie offers direct, respectful guidance while encouraging clients to set their own goals.
Her approach is collaborative - she and the client decide what to try and when to adjust course.
Therapeutic techniques and online care
Stephanie works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach involves teaching concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing strategies, grounding exercises, and stepwise exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance. Another approach centers on improving communication and relationship patterns by identifying unhelpful interaction habits and practicing clearer ways to express needs and set boundaries.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, circumstances, and comfort level, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets clients share thoughts between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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