About Stephanie
Stephanie Bigham is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in North Carolina. She brings two decades of clinical experience and a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions. Stephanie encourages active collaboration and small, doable steps toward change.
Stephanie draws on mindfulness, acceptance-based strategies, and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and reduce stress. She asks clients to try short exercises and homework between sessions so learning continues outside appointments.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and focused on building everyday skills. Her background includes work in a mental health clinic for people with developmental delays, hospital and NICU settings, respite programs, independent practice, and classroom roles.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with minors in Psychology and Education from the University of Florida, and a Master of Social Work from Florida International University. She is also a Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator. Stephanie helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and mood problems.
She also supports those dealing with relationship and family conflict, parenting strain, career challenges, and life transitions. ADHD is listed among her focus areas. Sessions emphasize practical tools - tracking thoughts, learning acceptance skills, and trying new behaviors.
Stephanie frames therapy as a team effort where clients test what works, adjust, and try again. She uses education and simple practices to build resilience and clearer choices.
Using ACT, CBT, and Mindfulness in online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts without fighting them and committing to actions that match your values. It can help when worry or avoidance gets in the way of everyday life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness practices to calm racing thoughts and improve attention and stress management. Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try practical techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps. That collaboration means approaches can be mixed to fit what a client prefers and needs. Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video lets people work face to face while fitting therapy into a busy day. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support shorter exchanges, quick skill practice, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options help people access therapy from different locations and schedules while focusing on workable strategies for daily life.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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