About Stephanie
Stephanie Birnbaum is an Ohio licensed LPCC with 36 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD, and major life changes. Her approach is clear and goal-oriented, with practical tools parents and busy adults can use right away.
She uses structured methods to help clients spot unhelpful patterns. Then she teaches skills for emotional regulation, better boundaries, and clearer decision making.
Background and approach
Sessions often include short exercises and step-by-step plans clients can try between meetings. Stephanie blends problem-solving work with deeper conversations about values and meaning. She can incorporate faith-based perspectives when a client requests that explicitly, and pairs those reflections with evidence-informed strategies.
Her style is direct but compassionate, aiming to move people from stuck to steady progress. Her experience spans a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, grief, trauma, addictions, sleep and eating issues, career questions, and life purpose. She also works with people facing midlife transitions, aging and geriatric questions, and first responder stress.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Stephanie provides multiple online formats so clients can choose what fits their schedule and needs. To begin, a client completes a brief matching questionnaire and schedules a time that works for them.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Stephanie often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. DBT teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills that help when feelings feel intense or overwhelming.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, short-term goals and track small wins. That approach helps clients who want practical, stepwise change and faster momentum toward everyday improvements. Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work - the therapist collaborates with each client to match methods to goals, values, and how a person prefers to engage in therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and feedback. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support short updates, homework review, or on-the-go problem solving. These options make therapy more accessible for varied schedules and needs while maintaining consistent therapeutic focus.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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