About Stephanie
Stephanie Knauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania who supports people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, and life transitions. She meets clients where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Her approach is straightforward and aimed at helping people feel more in control of their lives.
Stephanie has seven years of clinical experience and completed her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Shippensburg University.
How Stephanie works
She has worked in a range of settings including inpatient behavioral health and substance abuse treatment. Those roles gave her hands-on experience with people in crisis and those moving into recovery. In sessions she uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors.
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Attachment-based ideas guide how she understands relationship patterns and trust issues. Stephanie blends evidence-based methods with client-centered conversation.
She helps people set clear goals, try practical steps between sessions, and notice small changes over time. She also incorporates mindfulness and holistic habits to support overall wellbeing. People who wish to address body image, performance anxiety, caregiving stress, or co-occurring substance concerns may find her style useful.
She works with concerns such as trauma, grief, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and delivered using flexible online formats.
Stephanie lists 7 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect how people trust and connect. It can help with intimacy-related issues, abandonment concerns, and communication problems by naming patterns and practicing new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them in real life. It helps reduce anxiety, depression, and certain eating or sleep problems by teaching concrete skills to change thinking and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to manage strong feelings and reduce reactive behaviors.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful. This makes therapy a team effort focused on what the person needs and prefers.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit more easily into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, quick skill coaching, or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to use approaches like CBT, DBT, and attachment work in practical ways.
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