About Stephanie
Stephanie Upchurch is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and parenting challenges. She combines practical strategies with steady support so clients can make small, sustainable changes. Stephanie works with concerns around self-esteem, career choices, and compassion fatigue as well as neurodivergent needs such as autism and Asperger syndrome.
She aims to make the therapy space calm and open. Sessions are a place to name worries, try new ways of coping, and practice clearer communication.
Background and approach
Stephanie encourages honest conversation and keeps goals realistic and achievable. Over seven years of work in counseling inform her approach. That experience includes supporting people facing caregiver strain, communication problems, control issues, and intellectual disability related challenges.
She also helps clients explore life purpose and self-love, and addresses concerns that commonly affect women in transitional seasons. Stephanie blends straightforward problem-solving with emotional processing. She helps people build skills for handling anxiety, set boundaries, and make career decisions that fit their values.
For parents she offers practical tools to reduce daily stress and improve interactions with children. Sessions are offered in English and she is licensed in Oklahoma and Oregon. Stephanie welcomes international clients and uses flexible formats to match each person’s needs.
Getting started begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits individual availability.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Stephanie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and emotional understanding. One common approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and stress through step-by-step exercises and real-life practice. This method helps people notice triggers, try new responses, and gradually reduce overwhelm.Another approach centers on improving communication and role clarity, which is helpful for parenting challenges, caregiver stress, and workplace conflict. It teaches clear ways to express needs, set boundaries, and handle difficult conversations. A third strand of work supports neurodivergent clients by tailoring strategies to their sensory, routine, and communication preferences so interventions feel usable day to day.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to identify goals, test methods, and adjust techniques based on what actually helps. This collaborative method lets clients shape therapy around their values and daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can fit therapy into work, parenting, and other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Oregon
- Languages
- English