About Stephanie
Stephanie Lanza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps families and individuals can use right away. Her approach aims to make sessions feel useful and manageable for busy lives.
Stephanie has eight years of clinical experience in California. She has worked with children, adolescents, and adults and has particular experience supporting adoptive parents and foster/resource parents through unique challenges.
Background and approach
Her background includes responding to trauma and post-traumatic stress as well as common struggles like parenting strain and relationship tension. In sessions she uses a client-centered stance, meaning she follows the person's goals and priorities while offering structure when it helps. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and change patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.
Solution-focused techniques help build small, concrete steps toward a person's goals. When trauma is part of the story, she incorporates trauma-focused methods that move at a pace the client can manage. Stephanie aims to help people develop coping skills, improve relationships, and regain more balance in life.
Conversations are practical, with skill-building and problem-solving woven into each meeting. Her work is straightforward and goal-oriented. Parents and individuals seeking help with adoption-related issues, ADHD, mood concerns, or stress will find an approach that combines empathy with hands-on strategies.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Stephanie uses client-centered therapy to guide sessions around each person's goals and priorities. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters to the client, and shaping sessions to meet their needs, which can help when adjusting goals over time.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, depression, and daily functioning by teaching concrete skills to change thinking patterns and build new habits.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Stephanie will help assess which methods fit the client's needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust techniques as progress is made. The aim is to work together on strategies that feel useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to allow flexibility. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues for deeper connection. Phone sessions work well when video isn't possible or bandwidth is low. Chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when shorter, more frequent contact fits a person's schedule. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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