About Stephanie
Stephanie Drouin uses a client-centered approach to guide people through hard moments. She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - practicing in Missouri. Her style is direct and respectful, and she focuses on clear steps people can try between sessions.
Stephanie draws on about 10 years of experience supporting people with stress and anxiety. She also helps with relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, anger, and intimacy-related issues.
How Stephanie works
She pays attention to how life transitions and career strain affect mood and daily functioning. Her work often includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. She combines that with mindfulness skills to help reduce reactivity and calm the body.
Motivational Interviewing is part of her toolbox when people want to build momentum toward change. Sessions are adapted to each person. Stephanie starts by listening and then creates simple, practical steps to try.
She explains options plainly and invites feedback on what feels helpful and what doesn’t. People who come to Stephanie typically get concrete tools for managing symptoms and clearer plans for next steps. She also addresses deeper patterns like attachment, abandonment, codependency, and family of origin issues when those themes come up.
Her aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Stephanie lists 8 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online care
Stephanie commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people feel heard; it helps when someone needs space to sort thoughts and feelings. CBT looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.She also incorporates Mindfulness Therapy to teach grounding and attention skills that reduce reactivity. These approaches are chosen together with the person in a collaborative way. The therapist discusses goals, preferences, and what tends to work best, then adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer flexible options for quick support or ongoing reminders between sessions. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.
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