About Stephanie
Stephanie Knauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship or family challenges. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable for worried parents and individuals.
Stephanie uses clear, goal-oriented methods to help people build coping skills. She draws from cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and mindfulness to help people stay present.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in inpatient behavioral health and substance use settings with both teens and adults, plus experience in outpatient substance abuse counseling. This range of settings shaped a flexible approach that fits different problems and life stages. Stephanie has seven years of professional experience as a counselor.
In sessions she tends to focus on concrete, practical steps - small changes that add up. She also pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns when those issues affect daily life. Stephanie can help with challenges like sleep, eating concerns, caregiver stress, and burnout from compassion fatigue.
People who choose Stephanie often want clear tools and a steady, supportive guide. She tailors work to each person's goals and pace. If someone needs help sorting out emotions, improving communication, or handling big life changes, she works toward useful, everyday strategies.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and helps people notice attachment needs and reactions so they can build more stable connections. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and helping a person lead the pace and direction of sessions to feel understood and respected. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify and change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, which is useful for anxiety, mood struggles, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, concerns, and preferences. Together they will try strategies, review what helps, and adjust the plan so it fits the client's life and pace.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a more in-depth session is needed. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth than video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, writing out thoughts, or adding support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule and to keep regular momentum when life is hectic.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English