About Stephanie
Stephanie Cook is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with 10 years of experience. She focuses on common life struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and family concerns. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable for people who are nervous about reaching out.
Her approach centers on listening first and helping people name what matters to them. Sessions are a space to talk through feelings and worries without fear of judgment.
Background and approach
She encourages practical steps and gentle experimentation between sessions. Stephanie uses methods drawn from acceptance and commitment work and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people shift unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolbox when they fit a person’s goals.
She helps people cope with life changes, grief, parenting strain, career stress, and challenges related to ADHD or chronic illness. She also supports those dealing with anger, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and relationship communication problems. Clients who choose her often want straightforward guidance and a calm, steady presence.
The focus is on realistic goals and small steps that add up over time. Stephanie aims to help people build skills they can use outside of sessions.
Approach-driven care through online sessions
Stephanie blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking action toward them, which can help with anxiety and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce worry and depressive patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and pace. That collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as progress and priorities change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full-session conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be a lower-key way to check in or do shorter touchpoints. These options give flexibility for people juggling busy schedules, caregiving, work, or limited mobility, while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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