About Stephanie
Stephanie Cooley is a licensed professional counselor with 17 years of experience in mental health. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction struggles, grief, and challenges with self-esteem. Her work is direct and compassionate, and she aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable.
Stephanie uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
She also integrates mindfulness to help clients stay grounded and focused during difficult moments. Her approach is adaptable to each person's needs. Conversations are shaped around real goals like improving mood, reducing anxiety, managing cravings, or handling parenting and family tensions.
Sessions tend to focus on doable strategies you can use between meetings. She treats interpersonal problems and relationship stress by helping people develop clearer communication and healthier boundaries. For people coping with trauma, she uses trauma-informed techniques to move at a pace that feels tolerable while addressing painful memories.
Stephanie works with adults across a wide range of concerns. She aims to create a respectful and nonjudgmental space where people feel heard. If someone is ready to take steps toward change, she offers steady support and practical tools to help them move forward.
How her approaches work online
Stephanie commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify patterns of thinking and behavior that worsen mood or anxiety, then practices alternative responses and coping plans. Mindfulness therapy is used to build attention to the present moment, reduce reactivity, and manage stress with simple awareness exercises.Choosing an approach is collaborative. She will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize cognitive tools, mindfulness practices, or brief solution-focused steps and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you need a quick check-in, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter, more frequent touchpoints between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or parenting schedules while still using the same therapeutic methods.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English