About Stefanie
Stefanie Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin who focuses on practical, person-centered therapy. She prioritizes clear conversation and steady progress for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and related struggles. She brings 14 years of experience across hospitals, intensive outpatient programs, in-home services, case management, and outpatient therapy.
That range means she has worked with different levels of difficulty and learned many ways to help people cope and move forward.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with complex trauma, PTSD, mood disorders, and severe and persistent mental illness. Stefanie draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as foundations. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness practices, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) when trauma work is needed.
Sessions focus on finding what fits each person and building skills that can be used in everyday life. She is especially attentive to issues that touch relationships and family life, such as communication problems, caregiver stress, parenting challenges, grief, and intimacy concerns. Stefanie also works with mood-related conditions including bipolar disorder, postpartum depression, and seasonal affective disorder.
Stefanie values a collaborative approach over giving direct advice. She aims to help people discover practical coping strategies, increase self-compassion, and make manageable changes. Her recent time away from outpatient work to raise a young family led her to offer online therapy as a good fit for both clients and her schedule.
Using evidence-based approaches in online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and values and involves warm, nonjudgmental listening to help people find their own solutions. It can help when someone needs space to talk through feelings and make choices that match their priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings run high.
Stefanie treats choosing the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and past experiences to pick methods that feel workable. That process may combine approaches and adjust over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy lets people connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone calls work when bandwidth or camera time is limited, while chat or text can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let therapy fit around work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English