About Stephanie
Stephanie Knauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania who helps people facing anxiety, stress, addiction, and related struggles. She focuses on practical steps clients can take now to feel steadier. Her tone is straightforward and goal-focused, aimed at people who want clear tools and steady support.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking and change patterns that keep problems going. She also uses dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotional regulation and coping skills that can reduce intense reactions.
Background and approach
Attachment-based work informs how she talks about relationships and closeness, including worry about abandonment or problems with trust. Stephanie has seven years of professional experience in behavioral health settings. Her background includes inpatient psychiatric care and both inpatient and outpatient substance use counseling.
That range shaped a practical approach to meeting crises and building longer-term coping skills. In sessions she blends skill teaching with problem solving and short-term goal work. She often combines mindfulness practices with concrete behavior changes so clients can notice what helps between sessions.
Parents and caregivers looking for clear strategies often find the focus helpful. She offers video, phone, chat, and text options for ongoing support. People start by completing a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment timed to their needs.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early patterns of closeness influence current relationships and trust. In online sessions this can mean talking through relationship histories and trying new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems in place and practicing new, concrete skills to change them; online work often includes worksheets, behavioral experiments, and short between-session tasks. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which clients can practice between video or text check-ins.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to the client’s goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as progress and preferences become clear. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to keep or change over time.
Online formats offer useful flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quieter, focused conversations. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, skills practice, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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