About Stephanie
Stephanie Knauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Stephanie aims to make sure conversations feel useful and manageable for busy lives.
She brings seven years of clinical experience across inpatient behavioral health and substance use settings. That background means she has worked with adults facing mood struggles, addiction issues, and crises that affect daily functioning.
Background and approach
Her path began with a bachelor’s in psychology and continued with a master’s in clinical mental health counseling from Shippensburg University. Stephanie uses approaches that emphasize skills and real-world change. She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and on dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on connection and trust in relationships. Sessions include goal-focused planning and concrete tools people can try between meetings. She includes mindfulness practices and client-centered conversation to match a person’s pace and priorities.
Stephanie also integrates attention to overall health when relevant, such as sleep, eating, and activity patterns. Her experience includes work with substance use and inpatient behavioral health, and she has a particular interest in performance anxiety for athletes. People who want straightforward, skill-oriented help for mood, focus, or life transitions may find her style helpful.
Practical approaches for online support
Stephanie often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy during online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and it is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills to help manage overwhelming emotions and improve relationships.She also brings attachment-based ideas into work when relationship patterns are part of the concern. Attachment-informed work looks at how early and current patterns of connection affect how someone relates to others and copes with stress. Choosing an approach is collaborative - the therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy or geographically dispersed people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when a visual check-in matters. Phone sessions can fit during a break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins, skill practice, or scheduling easier between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into everyday life.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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