About Stephanie
Stephanie Arzavala-Reed draws on a mix of evidence-informed methods to help people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, and life transitions. She is a licensed clinical professional counselor and a licensed clinical mental health counselor with ten years of experience. Stephanie aims to make the first step feel manageable and clear for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She focuses on practical, goal-oriented work. Sessions often include learning simple coping skills, looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, and practicing small behavior changes.
How Stephanie works
Stephanie uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered work, Mindfulness, and Solution-Focused techniques as tools to fit each person’s situation. Her background includes work with stress, depression, trauma and abuse, LGBTQ concerns, intimacy issues, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and career-related distress. She also addresses attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems, and issues such as hoarding or first responder stress.
Stephanie combines psychoeducation with concrete strategies so people leave sessions with steps they can try. Sessions are offered through a range of online formats so therapy can fit into busy days. Stephanie helps people set clear goals and builds a plan together, adjusting approaches as needs change.
She explains concepts in plain language and keeps exercises simple and doable. People who want a collaborative, straightforward therapist who uses practical methods may find her approach helpful. Stephanie works from Illinois and conducts sessions in English.
Stephanie lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Stephanie works with
The areas below are the ones Stephanie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, avoidance, and big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and problem-solving in relationships and work.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie will discuss these methods with each person and decide together which strategies feel most useful. That collaborative choice is revisited as goals and needs change so the plan stays relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit in. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits into a break. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, reflection between sessions, and ongoing coaching-style contact. These options increase flexibility and help people use therapy in a way that matches their routine.
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