About Stephanie
Stephanie Drouin uses a client-centered approach to guide conversations about stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, and trauma. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri and brings ten years of clinical experience to each session. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and adults.
She listens without judgment and adapts sessions to each person's needs. That can mean practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to shift unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
It can also mean slowing down and using mindfulness exercises to reduce overwhelm. Narrative techniques are part of her work when people want to reframe difficult life stories. Motivational interviewing helps when a client is unsure about change or needs clearer goals.
Stephanie blends approaches so the plan fits the person in front of her rather than forcing one method. She has worked with concerns that include depression, self-esteem struggles, anger, intimacy-related issues, and career stress. Additional focus areas have included family of origin issues, codependency, abandonment, and first responder challenges.
Stephanie also supports people coping with loss, major life transitions, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are conversational and practical. Clients can expect to leave with small steps to try between meetings and a clearer sense of what to focus on next.
The initial choice to start therapy is recognized and respected as an important move toward change.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Stephanie often blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness work. Client-centered therapy means conversations focus on the person's concerns and goals, with the therapist following the client's lead to build trust and clarity. Cognitive behavioral therapy offers practical tools and exercises to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve moment-to-moment coping.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will test techniques and adjust the plan over time so the work fits the client's life and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues during deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can work for quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help clients fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English