About Stephanie
Stephanie Baldwin McGowan is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan with more than two decades of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. She works in a straightforward, supportive way and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
She uses evidence-informed approaches to help people build skills and notice what matters most. Sessions are practical and goal-focused, with time spent on coping tools, clearer communication, and ways to rebuild confidence.
How Stephanie works
She helps people untangle family tensions and navigate blended family issues and divorce or separation concerns. Stephanie also supports people facing substance use struggles, codependency, impulsivity, and isolation. She helps clients work on fatherhood issues, forgiveness, and managing guilt or shame.
Social anxiety, phobias, mood disorders, and questions about life purpose are part of her broad focus. Her style blends acceptance-based work, cognitive approaches, and emotion-focused methods. That mix aims to help people notice difficult thoughts, try new behaviors, and improve close relationships.
The goal is steady, practical change rather than quick fixes. Clients who choose her can expect a respectful, collaborative relationship. She will listen closely, offer tailored tools, and adjust the pace to fit each person’s needs.
The work is about small steps that add up to lasting change.
Stephanie lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Online approaches that help with emotion and behavior
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then move toward values-based actions. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, and trouble finding direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with doable experiments and practical skill-building; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood challenges. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on the emotions behind relationship patterns and helps people communicate needs and repair connection in close relationships.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try different strategies, and adjust the plan together. That collaborative process helps match methods to each person’s situation and pace.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people read facial expressions and body language, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, and chat or text can be used for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and practice new skills between sessions.
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