About Stephanie
Stephanie Holder is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She speaks English and aims to make therapy understandable and approachable for people feeling overwhelmed.
Her style is warm and collaborative. She listens carefully and helps people set clear, manageable goals. Sessions often include straightforward tools to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning rather than lengthy theory discussions.
Background and approach
Stephanie blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness strategies. That means she builds on each person's strengths, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood, and teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. She also uses solution-focused techniques to create quick, practical steps toward change.
She has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief and loss, parenting and adoption-related issues, caregiving stress, career questions, and addiction-related problems. Stephanie also supports people dealing with attachment concerns, blended family challenges, and life transitions such as divorce or midlife re-evaluation.
Therapy sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules and needs. The aim is to help people build coping skills, improve communication, and move toward clearer goals at a pace that feels right for them.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Stephanie commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in session. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, understanding your experience, and helping you find your own solutions through a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behavior, and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns and solve specific problems.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That means plans are adjusted over time rather than fixed up front.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which give more options for fitting therapy into a busy life. Video works well for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins or shorter focused work between full sessions. These choices let people continue progress while juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English