About Stephanie
Stephanie Trahant is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 12 years of experience who helps people facing anxiety, grief, stress, and relationship concerns. She offers straightforward support and practical steps for coping with life changes and mood struggles. She often gives short exercises between sessions when they would help progress.
Stephanie values humor and hope and aims to make emotional work feel manageable. Stephanie blends counseling, coaching, and spiritual reflection to treat the whole person.
Background and approach
She earned a master’s degree from Colorado Christian University and has worked in counseling since 1998 in a range of roles. That background shapes a flexible approach that adapts to each client’s needs. In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to pinpoint unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills.
She also uses Existential Therapy to help people clarify meaning and life direction when facing major transitions. For trauma and distress tied to past events she offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as one of the tools she may use. Stephanie often writes during online chat sessions and helps people find the words for difficult feelings.
She encourages homework when it will help, and she listens for ways to connect differing perspectives in strained relationships. She also supports those navigating grief, caregiving, cancer-related stress, and separation. Based in Virginia, Stephanie draws on a calm, encouraging style.
She aims to help people make concrete changes, protect emotional energy, and find practical next steps.
How her approaches translate to online work
Stephanie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try practical alternatives; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Existential Therapy is offered to help people clarify meaning, life purpose, and values when facing transitions or loss. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is one of the trauma-focused tools she may use to reduce distress tied to past events.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts plans as progress unfolds. Clients and therapist check in regularly about what is helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video sessions let people use face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper processing. Phone sessions can be easier when a participant needs less bandwidth or prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for people who find writing helps them name feelings and want brief check-ins between longer sessions. These options aim to make scheduling and participation more flexible for everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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