Psychotherapist in Training
Stephanie (she/her/hers) enters into the therapeutic relationship with care, warmth, curiosity, and faith in each person’s capacity to know and grow into their fullest and healthiest self. In therapy, Stephanie offers a supportive, collaborative, safe relationship in which persons seeking change and healing can explore, accompanied by the therapist, the painful and challenging aspects of life, and the feelings that attend them, on the way to transformation. Stephanie is a master’s student in Counseling with a background in literature, religious studies and practices, and multicultural community building. She brings deep awareness of how cultural values and social forces impact wellbeing.
Stephanie brings a life rich in experiences to her work as a psychotherapist. She grew up in a multilingual home, the daughter of an immigrant and refugee. Her family of origin knew trauma, depression, anxiety, and addiction. In her professional life, Stephanie has been a literature and interfaith religious studies professor, a progressive pastor of a majority LGBTQ congregation, and an impactful non-profit executive.
As a psychotherapist, Stephanie believes that a caring therapeutic relationship provides a safe space for persons experiencing emotional, psychological, and relational distress to move beyond isolation and negative defensive strategies to connection, healing, and change. Stephanie cares deeply about connecting with clients as they seek relief from depression, anxiety, and the impact of stress, trauma, emerging identity issues, life transitions, workplace conflict, and other challenges. Utilizing approaches like AEDP and Emotion Focused Therapy, blended with mindfulness and narrative techniques, Stephanie fosters clients’ self-knowledge and emotional capacity, while empowering clients to better navigate complex relationships, transitions, and work and life circumstances for a healthier future.
Stephanie self-identifies as a cisgender, White woman whose first language was other than English, who is married and is the parent of two adult children.
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