About Stephanie
Stephanie Donley is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD concerns. She offers a warm, respectful approach and aims to make conversations feel simple and grounded. Her style is straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use right away.
She draws from problem-solving and human-centered methods. Sessions often involve identifying small changes that make daily life easier. Stephanie listens for strengths and builds on what already works for each person.
Background and approach
Her work includes supporting people through bereavement, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and cancer survivorship concerns. She also addresses relationship strain, body image, eating and sleeping problems, and work or career stress. Compassion fatigue and forgiveness are other areas she commonly talks about with clients.
Stephanie uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to shift unhelpful thinking and from acceptance and commitment therapy to help people focus on values and workable action. Mindfulness and dialectical skills can be introduced to manage emotion and stay steady during hard moments. She emphasizes respectful, nonstigmatizing language and an affirming stance toward LGBT people.
Her background includes a decade of practice across settings where she coached and advocated for clients facing life changes. Stephanie works with people in Michigan and conducts sessions in English.
Approach-Based Online Support and Practical Tools
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, workable steps toward those values even when hard feelings are present. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation difficulties. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and testing out new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or sleep disturbance.Finding the right method is a team effort. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and daily routines, then try approaches that fit. Over time techniques are adjusted based on what helps most, so collaboration is central to deciding the best path forward.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video offers face-to-face interaction for full sessions, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be used for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or health limits and let people keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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