Licensed to practice in 2 states and accepts 7 insurances. Specializes in Anxiety, Life Transitions, Parenting and 8 more.
New to Grow
Stephanie Barkley graduated from Saint Louis University with a doctorate in medical family therapy. She has been practicing for 15+ years. She uses modalities that deconstruct patterns preventing you from reaching your full potential. Sessions with her will bring more insight and self awareness so that you can make changes where needed. Her counseling sessions will help you reconnect with yourself and the present moment and make yourself and your relationships priorities again.
You’ve gotten to a point where you feel lost, stressed, in a funk , or in a rut in your relationship, and you’re overwhelmed. You are at the end of your rope with yourself or your relationship. You feel like you’re not good enough, not important, like something is wrong with you or you’re broken? At this point, you’re wondering will you ever feel normal or happy. You are having trouble thinking clearly, your thoughts are scattered, you have too much to do and you just don't know where to start. Maybe there are things in your past bothering you or maybe it is the fear of the future. Many people get to this point, you are not alone.
That is where I come in.Our counseling sessions will focus on helping you reconnect with yourself, each other, make the relationship a priority again. We will work together to break out of the patterns and the loops of getting in the same arguments with no resolution. We will heal from the past and reshape the future relationship with more empathy and connection moving forward. Individual therapy is a place where we can organize your thoughts. Couples therapy helps partners to reconnect when you feel like you may not make it anymore. You've tried everything and it feels like it's not working. If you are ready to change, I am ready to work with you and help guide you to feeling happy and satisfied with your life and relationships
I am passionate about helping people to feel like themselves again. We all have periods in our life where we feel stuck, in a rut, or just off. Once you have been there long enough and you are exhausted of it and motivated to change. That is where we can see a lot of positive growth in therapy sessions together. We can be self reflective of how we got to that point, find the patterns and cycles where we got lost, break those patterns, and create a new intention and meaning in your life to live like yourself again.
Emotionally focused therapy is based in neuroscience and attachment theory. It brings together the idea of how we are raised, nurtured, and how we were treated as children and in relationships impacts our brain development and how we learn to live in the world and how we show up in relationships. I utilize this model of therapy to identify past relationship patterns that impacted who you are today and how they help you to show up in this world as an individual and in relationships and find the ways that it is useful and helpful and where we can challenge some of the internal thoughts and beliefs about yourself and the world.