About Stephanie
Stephanie Arzavala-Reed uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She brings ten years of counseling experience and works from methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to shape clear goals. Stephanie holds NV LCPC and NH LCMHC credentials and practices in Illinois.
She starts by listening to what matters most and asking simple, concrete questions. That helps identify small, doable steps toward change.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill practice, problem-solving, and check-ins on progress so people leave with tools they can use between appointments. Stephanie has worked with people dealing with trauma, grief, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and mood challenges including bipolar symptoms. She also supports those facing identity and LGBT issues, compassion fatigue, and first responder stress.
Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems, blended family issues, and separation or divorce. Her style is straightforward and warm. Stephanie helps clients set short-term goals and build on small successes.
She combines mindfulness and solution-focused techniques with cognitive strategies to shift unhelpful patterns and improve everyday coping. Getting started is kept simple. She helps people clarify what they want from therapy, then creates a plan that fits their life and priorities.
Stephanie aims to make sessions useful, focused, and easy to understand.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. This is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transition struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts shape feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with depression, panic, and mood regulation. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an empathic, nonjudgmental relationship so clients can explore concerns at their own pace; it supports work on identity, relationship problems, and self-esteem.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. Together they set clear short-term aims, try techniques in sessions, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between appointments, do brief skill work, or fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing family, work, and other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri, Arizona, New Hampshire, Washington, Nevada, Oregon
- Languages
- English