About Stephanie
Stephanie Fuentes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She brings 15 years of clinical experience to sessions and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed. She helps people facing stress, depression, grief, anger, and trauma and abuse.
She also supports clients working through issues related to self-esteem, body image, identity concerns for LGBT individuals, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and paced to match what each person needs. Her style centers on listening first and then tailoring practical tools to daily life. She uses approaches such as client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, Jungian ideas, and existential questions when they fit the goal.
Sessions often include goal-setting, coping skills, and actions to try between meetings. Stephanie pays attention to patterns like attachment, abandonment fears, codependency, and communication problems. She also addresses caregiver stress, impulsivity, guilt or shame, and work on finding purpose or rebuilding self-love.
Her work includes support for people working through post-traumatic stress and other trauma-related reactions. Therapy with her typically mixes talking with hands-on practices you can use right away. She encourages small steps, gentle experimentation, and regular check-ins to see what helps most.
The aim is clearer thinking and more workable ways to cope with anxiety and life's challenges.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist offers empathy, reflection, and support while clients name goals and pace. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and clearer direction rather than advice.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches simple, practical techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often includes homework like tracking moods, testing beliefs, and practicing new skills to reduce anxiety and depression.
Mindfulness therapy helps people notice their thoughts and physical sensations without getting stuck in them. Short practices and breathing or attention exercises are used to reduce reactivity and improve coping with stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adapt methods collaboratively. Clients often mix elements from different approaches to fit their needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let clients send quick updates, ask questions between sessions, or use shorter written check-ins that fit a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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