About Stephanie
Stephanie Sammarco is a licensed professional counselor who brings 15 years of clinical experience to her practice in New Jersey. She is credentialed as an LPC and LPMHC and focuses on helping people manage everyday stress and anxiety as well as life changes that feel overwhelming.
She works with adults on issues like depression, relationship struggles, grief, parenting strain, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Stephanie also helps people coping with chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, and feelings of isolation or low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She offers a straightforward, compassionate presence in sessions. Her style is practical and collaborative. Sessions aim to build trust and a working plan that fits daily life.
Stephanie draws from client-centered therapy to keep the client’s goals at the center of work and uses cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Mindfulness techniques are included to help with stress and anxiety by teaching breath work and grounding skills that can be used between sessions.
Motivational interviewing helps when clients want to shift habits or make difficult changes. Psychodynamic ideas are used when looking into patterns that began earlier in life and still affect relationships and emotions. People choosing Stephanie can expect an open, nonjudgmental space to talk through problems and build practical steps forward.
She encourages clear communication, manageable goals, and skills you can use day to day.
Approaches for online work and practical tools
Stephanie uses client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on the client’s priorities, offering a respectful, listening-centered stance that helps people name goals and feel heard. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which often helps with anxiety, stress, and mood difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That conversation guides whether sessions lean more on skills training, brief solution-focused strategies, motivational interviewing for change, or exploring deeper patterns with psychodynamic ideas.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for a full session experience, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging lets people send updates or questions between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy days while trying out different ways of working to see what helps most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Delaware
- Languages
- English
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