Stephanie Garcia
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." - Carl Jung. Welcome! I'm Stephanie Garcia, a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in both Hawaii and Texas. I specialize in addiction, trauma, mental health, and couples therapy. With warmth, curiosity, and a non-judgmental presence, I create a safe, empowering space where you can explore deep seated emotions, gain powerful insights, and experience real, lasting change in how you live, love, parent, and connect.
I teach coping strategies, use research to inform my practice and my clients, and the development of a strong rapport or therapeutic relationship is at the heart of my work.
Life's challenges- whether from past wounds, addictive patterns or relational struggles can disconnect us from our true Selves. My approach understands that you already hold within you the wisdom and resilience needed for transformation. I approach healing from a holistic, strengths based perspective. I draw on evidence based modalities including as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Relational Life Therapy (RLT) to support meaningful, lasting change. These tools help clients build psychological flexibility, challenge unhelpful patterns, cultivate mindfulness and values driven living (ACT), reframe thoughts and behaviors (CBT), and foster healthier, more authentic connections in relationships (RLT). I'm a therapist who genuinely loves this work and feels deeply honored by the trust my clients place in me. If you're ready to begin your journey towards deeper understanding and renewed hope, I invite you to reach out. I'd be honored to walk alongside you!
First session
In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions, then dive into the specific challenges you're facing. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions.
Strengths
My biggest strength is my ability to connect with my clients and provide them a safe, nonjudgmental, and respectful environment to work through their issues. I am direct, yet I allow my clients to set the pace of therapy.
Treatment methods
Humanistic
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will control and direct your life.” -Carl Jung As a therapist dedicated to fostering healing and growth, I specialize in humanistic therapy to support clients navigating trauma and attachment challenges. This compassionate, client-centered approach emphasizes your inherent worth and capacity for self-discovery, creating a safe space to process painful experiences. By focusing on your unique story, humanistic therapy helps rebuild trust, strengthen self-esteem, and repair relational wounds often rooted in early attachment.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is invaluable in my practice, as it helps my client's take control of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors by deepening insight and learning practical, evidence-based tools. CBT empowers my clients to identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns, reducing stress, anxiety, and depression while building lasting resilience. Through our work together, you'll learn and take away tools like emotional regulation, problem solving, thought-stopping, grounding techniques, and reframing negative beliefs to be able to handle life on life's terms.
EMDR
As a trauma-informed therapist, I offer Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help you heal from the lingering psychological, emotional, and physiological effects of trauma. Science continues to teach us how the mind and body are interconnected, and what affects us emotionally also impacts us physically. This transformative, research-backed therapy utilizes bilaterial eye movements that stimulate the natural healing process of the brain to work through, desensitize, and reprogram our beliefs around traumatic experiences. Clients often experience profound relief from flashbacks, anxiety, and self-doubt, reclaiming a sense of peace and control.
Couples Counseling
As a marriage and family therapist, I help couples and families transform tension into understanding and chaos into connection. Whether you're facing communication struggles, parenting challenges, or unresolved conflicts, this collaborative approach brings everyone's voice to the table. Together, we'll address patterns that keep you stuck, rebuild trust, take appropriate responsibility, and learn new ways to connect with your partner.
Location
Virtual sessions
Identifies as
White
Woman
Top specialties
Addiction
Anxiety
Trauma and PTSD
Other specialties
Coping Skills
Couples Counseling
Depression
Domestic Violence
Eating Disorders
Family Therapy
Licensed in
HawaiiLicense MFT-611
New MexicoLicense CTB-2026-0600
TexasLicense 204422