About Stephanie
Stephanie Dixon is a licensed professional counselor with 13 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely so clients feel heard. Her style is warm and interactive while keeping sessions focused and practical.
She began her career as a career counselor and later broadened to support adults and young adults facing a range of concerns. Her work often addresses trauma and adoption-related questions, mood disorders, and the emotional fallout from relationship strain and loss.
Background and approach
She also helps people coping with addictions, grief, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. In session she relies on a relational, client-directed approach. She invites feedback and encourages people to guide the topics they want to tackle.
At times she is direct to help move conversations forward and create clear next steps. Her methods draw on attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, motivational interviewing, and trauma-focused techniques. Those methods are used to identify unhelpful patterns, build coping skills, and strengthen how people relate to others and themselves.
Stephanie practices in Missouri as an LPC and works in English. She supports people dealing with issues such as sexual assault and abuse, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, eating concerns, and challenges related to adoption and foster care. She aims to make therapy practical, straightforward, and grounded in real-life goals.
How her approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how people form bonds and feel safe with others, and it helps when relationships or trust have been damaged by hurt or loss. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. Trauma-focused therapy addresses responses to past harm by helping a person process memories, reduce triggers, and build coping strategies for day-to-day life.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to pick approaches that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That means trying a method, checking in about what helps, and adjusting the plan based on feedback and progress.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options help people stay consistent with care while juggling work, school, or parenting responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English