About Stephanie
Stephanie Heimann is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience in counseling. She offers a warm, honest, and nonjudgmental approach aimed at helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate major life changes. Her style focuses on listening to each person’s story and partnering to set practical goals they choose.
She draws from client-centered methods to let people lead the work and name their priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to notice how thoughts affect behavior and to practice different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills can be included to help with accepting difficult emotions and building emotional regulation. Stephanie's background includes work in clinic, residential, hospital, and school settings. That variety informs a practical approach that values small, doable steps and real-world strategies.
She often incorporates music, animals, humor, and time outdoors when those elements suit a person's goals. Sessions focus on concerns such as stress, grief, parenting pressures, low self-esteem, depression, relationship and family strain, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. Stephanie aims to help people move toward clearer priorities and steadier daily functioning.
Her process is collaborative: she listens, reflects what she hears, and then offers options that fit individual needs. She prepares people for the fact that growth can feel uncomfortable at times, and she stays alongside them as they try new ways of coping and relating.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can help when anxiety or low mood leads to avoidance and when someone wants clearer motivation for daily choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. In sessions a person learns to spot thinking patterns that increase stress or depression and then practices realistic, step-by-step changes to feel and act differently.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your concerns and goals, explain different methods, and recommend options together so you both agree on a plan that fits your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for ongoing support between sessions and can make it easier to share thoughts when writing feels more comfortable. These formats increase flexibility for fitting therapy into busy schedules and for choosing the way of communicating that feels most helpful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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