About Stephanie
Stephanie Balbuena is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and build stronger self-esteem. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth so conversations feel direct and useful.
She draws on client-centered therapy to shape sessions around each person's values and priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and actions and to practice new skills.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are added to reduce overwhelm and improve emotional regulation. Stephanie also works with people facing career challenges, life transitions, grief, and the aftereffects of trauma and abuse. She helps people break down problems into manageable steps and set goals that fit their everyday lives.
Communication problems, feelings of isolation, and issues around guilt or control are common topics she addresses. Sessions can include solution-focused work to find immediate improvements and narrative therapy to reframe personal stories when that feels helpful. Stephanie speaks English and Spanish, which can make it easier for bilingual clients to connect.
She aims to treat everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while tailoring conversation and plans to each person’s needs. People who meet with her can expect straightforward, collaborative work. The focus is on practical strategies, clearer thinking, and small changes that add up over time.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters to the person in front of the therapist. In online sessions this means conversations are shaped around the client’s goals and paced to their needs. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify patterns of thought and behavior that fuel anxiety and replaces them with practical skills. Online CBT sessions typically combine discussion with at-home exercises and short skill practice between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. Stephanie will work collaboratively to choose methods that match the client’s goals, symptoms, and personal preferences. That could mean emphasizing mindfulness skills some weeks and solution-focused steps in others depending on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when someone has limited bandwidth or prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or when a written exchange fits a person’s routine. These options make it easier to fit regular work on stress and anxiety into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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