About Stephanie
Stephanie MacMurtrie is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports clients facing relationship strain, family conflict, motivation struggles, self-esteem concerns, career difficulties, and mood challenges like depression. She aims to treat every person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Sessions are conversational and focused on the issues you bring. Stephanie works to create a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment.
Background and approach
Her approach is collaborative. She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs instead of using a one-size-fits-all method. That means practical steps you can try between sessions and regular checks on what is or isn’t helping.
Stephanie draws on techniques from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness, among other approaches. She uses straightforward tools for thinking differently about problems, noticing unhelpful habits, and building small, steady changes. With seven years of clinical experience in Pennsylvania, she brings real-world practice to common life challenges.
The first step can feel hard, and she aims to make the process easier by listening and working at a pace that fits the client. People who want direct, down-to-earth support for anxiety, relationship issues, or life transitions may find her style helpful. Sessions emphasize clear goals, practical skills, and collaborative planning to move forward one step at a time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgment, helping clients feel understood and steering conversations toward their priorities. This approach suits people who want a supportive space to sort through feelings and decide next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and tests small behavior changes to ease symptoms like anxiety or low mood. It is useful for people who want concrete tools and exercises to practice between sessions.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and bodily reactions with less reactivity, which can reduce stress and improve focus. These practices often pair well with other techniques to manage emotional ups and downs.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust plans over time based on what helps. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for different routines. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone calls can fit a tight schedule or lower bandwidth, live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins and written reflections between meetings. These formats make it easier to connect from different locations and to fit sessions into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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