About Stephanie
Stephanie Petersen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who brings 14 years of practice to her work. She uses straightforward, skill-focused sessions to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. Stephanie aims to teach practical coping tools and to explore patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness strategies to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple exercises, skill practice, and reflection about past experiences to better understand current reactions. This plainspoken approach helps people see small changes that add up over time. Her background includes hospital medical social work and home health, giving her experience with illness, caregiving stress, and chronic conditions.
That clinical work shapes how she supports people facing health-related grief and adjustment. She also supports those dealing with addiction, relationship and family concerns, and parenting stress. Stephanie offers telehealth formats and is comfortable using phone, video, live chat, and text messaging to meet different needs.
She works from Michigan and conducts sessions in English. International clients are not accepted. Clients can expect a collaborative, nonjudgmental tone in sessions and a focus on skills they can use between meetings.
Stephanie encourages small, manageable steps and centers goals people set for themselves.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, grief, and adjusting to life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often involves short exercises and homework to practice new ways of responding. Mindfulness Therapy focuses on present-moment awareness and simple breathing or attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm; it pairs well with both ACT and CBT for anxiety and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work and is decided together. The therapist will talk about goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. That shared process makes it easier to adapt techniques to a person's daily life and real-world challenges.
Online therapy offers flexibility and multiple ways to connect. Video calls let you see facial cues and use worksheets together, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, coaching-style support, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into workdays, caregiving routines, or periods of recovery.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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