About Stephanie
Stephanie Horner is a licensed professional clinical counselor who helps adults manage stress, anxiety, and the everyday challenges of parenting and relationships. She draws on 25 years of counseling experience and a broader 35-year background in healthcare to guide practical steps forward. Her approach is warm and straightforward, and she aims to help people find concrete tools that fit their lives.
Stephanie began her career in nursing and later worked in school health administration and program development.
Background and approach
She spent many years counseling children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral needs, as well as advising their parents. Today she focuses mainly on adult clients and common concerns like depression, grief, sleep problems, anger, career strain, and ADHD-related challenges. In sessions she blends client-centered listening with goal-oriented methods.
That means she pays close attention to each person’s story while helping them practice new skills. She uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and acceptance and commitment therapy to address thoughts, habits, and stress reactions. She also brings motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies into short-term work when people want clearer direction.
The emphasis is on small, practical steps that build confidence and improve daily functioning. Stephanie describes her style as kind, direct, thoughtful, and occasionally funny. Clients can expect collaborative planning that looks at both immediate problems and longer term growth.
The aim is to identify what matters most, try concrete techniques, and adapt them until they work in real life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. Online sessions can use ACT exercises to clarify what matters and set small, doable goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going. In virtual work, CBT uses structured conversations and between-session practice to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and address sleep or anger issues.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose which methods fit the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining ACT, CBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing techniques and adjusting them over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering practical flexibility. Video allows a full face-to-face conversation, phone calls require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and live chat or messaging can support brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still using the same therapeutic approaches discussed in sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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