About Stephanie
Stephanie Donley is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and major life changes. She practices with a warm, respectful style and aims to make sessions feel genuine and approachable. Stephanie avoids stigmatizing labels and seeks to meet people where they are.
She uses a blend of practical tools and supportive conversation. Sessions often include ways to rethink unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and notice values that matter most.
Background and approach
Stephanie emphasizes strengths and small, achievable steps that fit day-to-day life. Her background includes work with people facing serious illness and end-of-life concerns, as well as those dealing with caregiver stress and compassion fatigue. Over a decade of experience has included coaching and advocacy roles in several settings.
She brings that experience into appointments to help clients find clearer direction. Stephanie describes her style as engaging and kind. She draws on client-centered and mindfulness ideas to create space for reflection.
Cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-oriented methods are used to change patterns that cause distress. Clients can expect a collaborative process that explores values, coping choices, and practical changes. Stephanie supports exploration around relationships, self-esteem, eating and sleeping concerns, ADHD, addiction, career transitions, and forgiven-related issues among other topics.
Her aim is to help people notice what matters and take steps toward a more balanced life.
How her approaches shape online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even when anxiety or difficult emotions show up. It’s useful for stress, grief, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Mindfulness Therapy involves simple attention practices and grounding skills that reduce reactivity and help people respond more calmly to stress.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what actually works in day-to-day life.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions are helpful when video is not needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, thoughts between sessions, and ongoing coaching-style work. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or treatment schedules while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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