About Stefanie
Stefanie Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin. She brings 14 years of experience in mental health and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship and family concerns. She uses a practical, person-centered approach and adapts tools to each person's needs.
Sessions often include skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness practices, and targeted work for trauma using EMDR when appropriate.
How Stefanie works
Stefanie aims to help people build coping skills and steady routines that make daily life more manageable. Her background includes work in inpatient hospital settings, intensive outpatient programs, in-home therapy, case management, and outpatient counseling. That variety gave her experience with a wide range of concerns, including severe and persistent mental illness, post-traumatic stress, mood disorders, and caregiver stress.
She also has experience addressing parenting challenges, grief, career concerns, and compassion fatigue. Stefanie trained in psychology and community counseling at the University of Wisconsin system. She combines evidence-based practices with a warm, straightforward style.
She avoids giving prescriptive advice and instead helps people find their own solutions through guided conversation and skill-building. People who choose to work with her can expect consistent, goal-focused sessions that emphasize practical coping strategies, emotion regulation, and improved communication. She returned to outpatient work after time spent caring for a young family and offers online formats to fit different schedules.
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What Stefanie works with
The areas below are the ones Stefanie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Using evidence-based approaches in online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at each person's pace to identify goals and strengths. It helps people feel heard and supported while they try out new coping strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions may blend approaches so clients get both skills training and trauma-focused work when needed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, ongoing skill reinforcement, and people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care across different schedules and locations.
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