About Stephanie
Stephanie Hartman is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who supports people struggling with anxiety and related concerns. She focuses on practical steps that reduce stress and help people feel more capable in daily life. Stephanie keeps sessions straightforward and calm so parents and busy adults can follow along easily.
She draws on ten years of clinical experience to help people work through trauma, addiction, and relationship difficulties.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear skills for coping with panic, improving communication, and managing overwhelming feelings. Stephanie often helps clients identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more balanced, doable actions. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She listens first, then offers tools that match a person's goals. Mindfulness, problem-solving, and short-term skill practice are common parts of her work. Stephanie also supports people facing family and parenting strain, fertility and blended-family challenges, and career stress.
She pays attention to patterns that start in family of origin and to attachment concerns that affect adult relationships. Practical coaching around life changes and recovery from substance use is available within her approach. Clients can expect a mix of talking, skill practice, and goal setting in session.
Stephanie aims to make progress feel measurable, with steps people can try between meetings. Her work centers on helping people build stronger coping habits and clearer communication over time.
Using practical approaches online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard and guides them to clarify their own goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete techniques for easing anxiety and changing unhelpful thinking patterns.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, and then suggest a mix of methods to try. Together they can adjust strategies if something does not fit or if priorities change over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video lets people work face-to-face when visual cues matter, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to make ongoing work more flexible and easier to maintain.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Stephanie address?
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
How much experience does she have?
Where is she licensed and based?
Which languages are supported?
What session formats are available?
How does cost and billing work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.