About Stephanie
Stephanie Freeman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience based in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, addictions, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Her tone in sessions is warm and direct, aiming to help people make changes that fit their daily lives.
She uses practical, hands-on approaches that target thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer alternatives.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel stuck and want to find the motivation to change. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
Stephanie adapts plans to each person's situation and priorities rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. She pays attention to what is most pressing - whether that is panic, cravings, grief, or trouble sleeping - and works from there. People who come to her often bring complicated histories like family conflict, attachment wounds, caregiving strain, or patterns of impulsivity and shame.
She helps break those patterns into small, manageable steps and practices that can be tried between sessions. Therapy is offered in English and uses a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. The pathway to beginning is straightforward: select Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on availability.
How Stephanie’s Approaches Work Online
Stephanie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice habits of thought that feed anxiety, depression, or unhelpful behaviors, and then practice clearer ways of thinking and acting. This approach works well for panic, worry, low mood, and many daily struggles.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. These tools are useful when intense feelings, impulsivity, or relationship conflicts are getting in the way.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and comfort level. She will check in often and adjust strategies based on what is helping and what is not.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent with a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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