About Stephanie
Stephanie Franklin is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas with 13 years of experience. She offers a calm, straightforward approach that centers on each person's strengths. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship or parenting challenges.
Stephanie uses practical talk and collaborative planning. She listens first, then works with people to set small, realistic steps they can practice between sessions. This includes strategies to cope with grief, trauma, anger, and the ups and downs of life changes.
Background and approach
She brings Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools to help notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep conversations focused on what matters most to the client and to build on existing strengths. Her areas of focus include communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, and building self-love.
She also supports people dealing with bipolar symptoms and ADHD-related challenges through problem-solving and routine work. Sessions can be held in several online formats, and Stephanie encourages a pace that fits each person's schedule. She aims to make the early steps clear and manageable, so people can see progress without feeling overwhelmed.
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Stephanie combines Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to make online work practical and personal. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building on the strengths a person already has, helping them feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and offers straightforward tools to test new ways of responding to stress, anxiety, or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and adjusts plans as needed. This means clients help set goals and pick the strategies they want to try between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone can work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text gives flexible, shorter check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to practice skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English