About Stephanie
Stephanie Brewer is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Alabama. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addictive behaviors. She also supports concerns around self-esteem, relationship strain, and major life changes.
Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping people take the next step forward. With ten years of experience, she draws on practical methods to make progress feel manageable. Sessions focus on clear goals, skills you can use between visits, and short-term strategies for relief.
Background and approach
She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Her work is also informed by client-centered principles that prioritize each person’s perspective. That means conversations are guided by the client’s needs and pace rather than a fixed agenda.
Motivational Interviewing is used when people want to build motivation for change, including around substance use or lifestyle shifts. Stephanie adapts plans to fit individual situations like caregiver stress, workplace burnout, or complicated grief. She addresses issues such as attachment and abandonment, body image, codependency, and forgiveness in practical terms.
Her aim is to help people develop tools for daily life and clearer thinking about next steps. To begin, she asks people to describe what’s most pressing and sets achievable steps. The focus is on usable skills, compassionate listening, and steady progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Stephanie often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thought patterns and try new behaviors. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, low mood, and stress by teaching concrete tools to test unhelpful thoughts. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which keeps the person’s perspective at the center of the work and helps build trust and clarity about what matters most.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then shape sessions accordingly. That collaborative process can include mixing methods so work fits the client’s needs and pace rather than following one fixed model.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls let people use visual cues and more natural conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, real-time coaching, or writing through thoughts between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit care into a busy life and keep steady momentum toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English