About Stephanie
Stephanie Clausen-Swenson is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) practicing in Minnesota. She brings 15 years of clinical experience and a focus on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and major life changes. Her work emphasizes collaboration and clear, usable steps toward goals.
Stephanie uses down-to-earth language in sessions and helps clients sort through overwhelming thoughts. She offers tools like deep breathing, guided imagery, and role-play to practice new ways of coping and communicating.
Background and approach
Sessions often include goal-setting and small experiments to try between meetings. Her background includes work with attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregivers dealing with chronic illness and burnout. She also supports people with relationship strains, family origin questions, career decisions, and struggles with self-esteem and body image.
Stephanie has experience with trauma, abuse, fertility and parenting stress, and first responder issues. Therapeutically she draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered techniques, emotionally-focused methods, existential questions, and cognitive behavioral strategies. She blends these approaches to match each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Sessions aim to be practical and oriented toward meaningful change. Stephanie also works with people exploring life direction and identity. She helps clients clarify values and set steps toward a more satisfying daily life.
Her approach is steady, encouraging, and focused on what the client wants to accomplish.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based therapy focuses on relationships and early patterns that shape how people connect. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to identify attachment needs and practice new ways of relating to others. Client-centered therapy centers the client's perspective and choices, emphasizing listening, validation, and pacing the work at the client’s comfort level to build trust and clarity.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That cooperative decision happens in early sessions and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, and more frequent touchpoints between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English