About Stephanie
Stephanie Douple greets people who are worn down by stress, anxiety, substance struggles, or depression with clarity and calm. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas who draws on her own lived experience with recovery to relate to clients who want steady, practical help.
Her tone is direct and compassionate, and she keeps sessions focused on what people need right now. Stephanie uses a person-centered stance to make space for each client’s story.
Background and approach
She blends techniques that address difficult memories, unhelpful beliefs, and internal parts that get stuck. In sessions she listens, asks clear questions, and helps people try new ways of coping and communicating. Her background includes work in addiction recovery and mental health, and she completed graduate training in clinical mental health counseling.
That personal and professional mix informs how she meets people where they are without judgment. She describes her work as collaborative and practical. Clients can expect a straightforward approach that focuses on manageable steps.
Stephanie often helps with attachment and abandonment wounds, self-esteem and body image struggles, codependency and communication problems, and the stress that comes from caregiving or major life disruptions. She also supports people coping with trauma and mood concerns. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
Stephanie asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability, so she can match goals and practical needs before beginning work together.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Stephanie integrates evidence-based techniques that focus on thoughts, internal parts, and processing difficult memories. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) looks at the beliefs that drive hard feelings and helps people try new, more workable ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood.Internal Family Systems (IFS) pays attention to the different parts inside a person - the protective parts and the wounded parts - and helps them learn new relationships with those parts to reduce inner conflict. EMDR-style processing addresses upsetting memories and the ways they show up now, helping people move past intense emotional reactions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and will adjust strategies over time. Clients set priorities and the therapist helps craft a plan that feels doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video is useful for full sessions and visual connection, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, chat or text suits brief check-ins and quick skill rehearsals. These choices allow flexibility for scheduling, follow-ups, and different kinds of support between longer appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English