About Stephanie
Stephanie Fuertes is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people dealing with stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, mood concerns, addiction challenges, and parenting stress. Stephanie speaks English and Spanish and draws on six years of clinical experience.
Her approach is warm and straightforward. She listens first and helps a person name what matters most. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Stephanie uses client-centered work to follow the person's lead and build on their strengths. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small experiments to change behavior. She also brings mindfulness skills to manage emotional intensity and reduce reactivity.
In practice she focuses on real-world problems like communication breakdowns, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and coping with life changes. She also addresses attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, and family of origin patterns that keep showing up. People can expect clear goals, practical strategies, and room to process painful events.
Stephanie aims to help clients build tools they can use between sessions and to support steadier day-to-day functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and strengths, letting the therapist follow the client's priorities while offering support and reflection. This approach helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to build confidence in their own choices.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress when someone wants concrete tools and short-term experiments.
Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and breathing skills to calm the body and reduce reactivity. These practices can help with emotional regulation and coping during stressful moments.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on how things go. Clients and the therapist decide together what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or people who prefer not to use video.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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