About Stephanie
Dr. Stephanie Ferguson is a licensed professional clinical counselor in New Mexico. She has six years of experience in counseling and a long background in education that shapes how she supports people.
She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, relationship trouble, career decisions, and changes in life stage. She prefers a direct and practical style. Sessions are collaborative and goal-minded.
She listens first, then helps clients build steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
That can include short exercises, new ways of talking to themselves, and simple behavior changes. Her work draws on several therapy approaches, including acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and client-centered listening. She adapts methods to match what each person needs rather than following a single script.
This can help with issues such as grief, addictions, body image concerns, or parenting stress. Dr. Ferguson also addresses deeper patterns like attachment and abandonment, family of origin problems, codependency, and control issues.
She brings experience working in a rural community and understands the challenges that come with limited local services. Her goal is to help people find practical ways forward. People who meet with her can expect straightforward conversations and a focus on usable skills.
She frames therapy as teamwork and supports clients as they try new approaches and adjust plans when needed.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that align with what matters. It can be useful for anxiety, life changes, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship to explore goals and values.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to select methods that match their needs and preferences. Together they try techniques, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time so therapy feels relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow session-length conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief exchanges into a busy day or to track progress between sessions. These options help people connect from different places and schedules while focusing on usable skills and collaborative problem solving.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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