About Stephanie
Stephanie Frey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) living and practicing in Iowa. She has seven years of experience in the mental health field and focuses on concerns like anxiety, depression, ADHD, stress, and issues with self-esteem. She aims to create a calm and respectful space where people can talk about what’s hardest for them and find practical ways forward.
Stephanie uses straightforward, problem-focused work to help people manage symptoms and daily challenges.
Background and approach
She often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify patterns of thought and behavior that make things harder. She also brings a client-centered perspective that emphasizes each person’s strengths and goals. Sessions typically involve setting clear goals, trying small experiments between meetings, and checking what helps.
Stephanie pays attention to relationships, life transitions, and past trauma when those issues come up. She works with young adults and others who need support for mood differences, panic, obsessive worries, or social anxiety. Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative.
She listens first, then offers tools that fit a person’s life and schedule. That can mean practical coping skills, thinking-skills from CBT, or building routines to reduce overwhelm. Stephanie supports communication and problem solving around family concerns and parenting strain while focusing on the individual’s needs.
She is fluent in English and provides sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a supportive relationship. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them find their own solutions; this approach is useful for improving self-esteem and working through relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. It teaches practical skills - like testing worries, changing unhelpful thinking, and trying small behavior changes - which can help with anxiety, panic, OCD tendencies, and mood problems.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether to use CBT techniques, a client-centered stance, or a mix of both so the plan fits the person’s life.
Online formats make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow real-time conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, sharing exercises, or maintaining momentum between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and stay connected as progress is made.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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