Stephanie specializes in adult Mental Healthcare, offering a blend of Behavioral Therapy, Neuroscience, Somatic techniques & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to treat depression, anxiety, grief, ADHD, & Eating Disorders. These interventions combined with emotional exploration provide individualized care and measurable improvements in well-being. Stephanie assists clients in recognizing and breaking repetitive and suppressed narratives, enabling them to move forward in life. Working mothers with minor children are prioritized and recognized in Stephanie's work. An LGBTQ community member & ally utilizing social justice and peace values.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
You can heal and change can happen. Life can be so different in 3 months, let alone a year's time. You aren't alone and don't have to be! Help is a phone call away. Reach out. I look forward to walking beside you on your wellness journey.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My strengths are deep listening, clinical assessment, and interventions that help create change in the lives of clients.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
We will work from a client centered approach to help you clarify your needs, be a safe place to voice your feelings and embolden your skills to live the life you want. Everyone is unique and still we are all so similar in needing inner peace, self confidence, and motivation to learn, grow and change. Reach out for a free 15 minute consultation.
About Stephanie Smith
Stephanie Smith offers therapy covered by UnitedHealthcare/Optum - Medicaid in Virginia.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Stephanie combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with emotional exploration, and cognitive processing to utilize CBT to help clients realize Personal Outcomes.
Cognitive Processing (CPT)
Looks for patterns and narratives of cognitions and how these are impacting the emotions and behaviors of clients for the purpose of making needed changes.
Grief Therapy
Grief therapy creates time and space for the grieving process to occur. While creating an environment that can hold the client's experience safely while the process unfolds.
Trauma-Focused CBT
Trauma Focused CBT educated the client around the complexity of trauma as a physological response, while helping the client understand their personal experience of trauma and how to reduce the impacts of symptoms.
Strength-Based
Strength-Based work inventories and utilizes personal strengths to increase outcomes and resolution of identified problems.