About Stephanie
Stephanie Thomas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of experience. She brings a warm, direct style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.
She also supports people facing career strain, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, and the ongoing demands of chronic mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder. Stephanie uses practical, goal-focused methods in sessions.
Background and approach
She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with dialectical behavior strategies and attachment-based ideas to help clients build coping skills and clearer thinking. Sessions tend to include specific tools to handle overwhelming feelings, ways to improve communication, and steps to reduce avoidance or impulsive reactions. Her work also addresses themes like grief, self-esteem, anger, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She pays attention to relationship patterns, abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, and family of origin concerns when those topics affect daily functioning. Stephanie helps people grieving separation, infidelity, or life purpose struggles find steady ways forward. Her approach is practical and caring.
She listens closely, helps set achievable goals, and offers techniques clients can use between sessions. Progress is treated as a step-by-step process rather than a quick fix. People who choose Stephanie can expect straightforward guidance and a focus on skills that change how daily life feels.
She has worked in clinical and leadership roles, bringing two decades of real-world experience to treatment in Texas and with international clients.
Therapeutic tools for online care
Stephanie commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in session. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take small, meaningful actions even when thoughts and feelings are difficult. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing more effective responses to stress and anxiety.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses your goals and preferences and adapts methods as needed. Together you decide which techniques to try first and adjust them over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can suit shorter updates, homework check-ins, or days when typing feels easier. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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