About Stephanie
Stephanie Risinger is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist with 13 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She sees mostly individuals and focuses on clear, practical steps people can use right away. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at making short-term changes that add up over time.
She often works with worries about relationships, grief, depression, and big life transitions. Stephanie also supports people facing fertility and pregnancy concerns, postpartum mood issues, eating and self-esteem struggles, and the challenges of ADHD and bipolar mood patterns.
Background and approach
Communication problems and family of origin issues are other common topics she addresses. Her approach combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and learn ways to stay present when emotions feel intense.
Sessions tend to blend learning with simple exercises you can practice between meetings. Stephanie trained at California Baptist University, earning a Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology in 2009. She also taught as an adjunct professor of psychology for five years and has spoken at community events and trainings.
Her Kansas practice brings those years of hands-on and teaching experience to each session. People who choose Stephanie usually want straightforward tools and a collaborative plan. She works with each person to set realistic goals and track progress over time.
If you prefer practical steps and steady support, she aims to make therapy feel useful and manageable.
Online approaches that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose small actions that align with personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions when someone wants to build a clearer sense of direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with behavior. It offers straightforward tools to reduce worry, shift mood, and change routines that keep problems going.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Those skills are often paired with ACT and CBT techniques to help with persistent anxiety and overwhelming emotions.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Stephanie will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set practical goals and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions make regular contact easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports quick progress notes or ongoing encouragement. These options offer flexibility so therapy can continue across changes in schedule or location.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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