About Stephanie
Stephanie Maxwell is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania with 12 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She also offers support around LGBTQ matters.
Her style is straightforward and accepting, aimed at helping people feel heard so they can begin to make change. Stephanie mixes practical therapies with mindfulness and body-aware techniques. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is part of her work too, helping people notice their values and take steps toward a meaningful life even when feelings are hard. Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about connection, abandonment, and family of origin issues. Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs work on relationship patterns and communication problems.
Sessions may include breathing practices, mindful attention, and skills to manage distress between meetings. She has experience addressing a wide range of concerns beyond mood and anxiety, including chronic pain, caregiver stress, fertility challenges, body image, and aspects of sexual identity and kink culture. Stephanie aims to adapt methods to each person’s situation rather than following a single script.
Therapy with her is collaborative. She frames the client as the expert on their life and offers tools, feedback, and steady support. The goal is to help people build small, sustainable changes that add up to better daily functioning and clearer relationships.
Practical approaches for online healing and connection
Stephanie commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change behaviors that keep problems going. ACT helps people notice painful thoughts or feelings while committing to actions that match their values, which can reduce avoidance and increase meaningful activity. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people try new ways of relating that feel safer and clearer.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about what matters to the client, try methods that fit their goals, and adjust as progress and preferences become clearer. Clients help guide which techniques stay and which change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief updates, tracking progress, or getting support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English