About Stephanie
Stephanie Harnish is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She has worked in outpatient settings and independent practice for over a decade and brings 12 years of hands-on experience to her work. She takes a warm, nonjudgmental approach that helps people feel understood.
Sessions focus on building trust, clarifying goals, and finding practical steps to manage day-to-day struggles. Many clients seek help for anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma-related concerns including phobias.
Background and approach
Her background includes frequent work in trauma-informed and trauma-focused care. She uses techniques that aim to reduce distress from past events and improve current functioning. That can look like learning new coping skills, addressing unhelpful thinking, or working through strong emotions at a manageable pace.
Stephanie often draws on client-centered methods to put the person's priorities first. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to spot and change thought patterns, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and coping tools. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is part of her experience when trauma processing is appropriate.
Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She works with a range of concerns including grief, addictions, panic attacks, attachment issues, and compassion fatigue. The focus is on steady, practical progress that fits each person's life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and building trust so people can set their own pace and goals; online sessions use that same approach to prioritize what matters most to the individual. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through homework and short practical exercises that work well over video or messaging.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss needs, goals, and preferences and suggest a plan that may combine methods. That plan can change as progress is made, and adjustments are made together when something isn’t working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video is useful when face-to-face interaction helps build rapport, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text messaging can work for brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical skill building and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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