About Stephanie
Dr. Stephanie Ferguson is a licensed clinician practicing in New Mexico. She brings six years of clinical experience and a long career in education to her counseling work.
Dr. Ferguson helps people who feel stuck by focusing on strengths and practical steps forward. She commonly supports people coping with anxiety, stress, depression, and low self-esteem.
She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, career questions, life transitions, parenting strain, and addictive behaviors.
Background and approach
Her practice includes work with grief, trauma and abuse, eating and sleep difficulties, and issues around communication and boundaries. Dr. Ferguson takes an eclectic, client-centered approach.
She gets to know each person and blends methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to match needs. Sessions focus on clear goals, skills people can use between meetings, and checking in about what is or isn’t helping. Her background in education shapes a practical style.
She aims to make therapy feel straightforward and down-to-earth. Clients can expect someone who listens without judgment and who offers structured tools alongside reflective conversation. Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she has lived in many places as a military spouse and now practices in a rural New Mexico community.
Dr. Ferguson invites people who are ready for change to take a first step toward more manageable days and clearer direction.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking action that aligns with what matters to a person. It helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by teaching ways to move forward even with difficult thoughts and feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is useful for stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and problem patterns by teaching practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Dr. Ferguson treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try methods that match those needs. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can suit people who prefer written exchanges or want flexible touchpoints between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, or other obligations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English