About Stephanie
Stephanie Brewer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Alabama who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and struggles with addictions. She focuses on building confidence and motivation while addressing self-esteem and life changes. Her tone is respectful and down-to-earth, and she aims to make the first step feel manageable.
Stephanie uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person. She adapts sessions to an individual's pace and needs rather than following a fixed script.
Background and approach
This means practical strategies can be blended with space to talk through feelings. Her approach draws on client-centered work that keeps the person's goals front and center. Cognitive behavioral techniques may be used to spot unhelpful thinking and try small, doable changes.
Motivational interviewing is offered when someone needs help finding the drive to change behaviors like substance use. Stephanie also brings trauma-focused tools when past events are getting in the way of daily life. She aims to help people reduce distressing symptoms and rebuild a sense of safety and control over time.
Sessions include concrete skills and step-by-step planning where useful. With ten years of experience, Stephanie has supported people through caregiving stress, relationship and family concerns, first responder issues, and end-of-life matters. She works in English and meets with clients using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To start, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect people with scheduling options.
How her approaches work online
Stephanie blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help with worry, low mood, and life transitions. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping people set their own goals, which is useful when someone needs a safe space to sort things out. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches simple ways to notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.She treats choosing an approach as a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and what feels most doable. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people work face to face when that helps. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are available for ongoing support between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options aim to increase flexibility and make regular work on goals more practical.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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