About Stephanie
Stephanie Miller-Olsen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with ten years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, respectful approach and helps people find practical tools for coping with daily stress and stronger emotional health. Her work often centers on anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and attention challenges such as ADHD.
She also helps with grief, sleep difficulties, addiction concerns, and mood disorders including bipolar.
How Stephanie works
Stephanie addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, and career stress in straightforward sessions. Stephanie draws on client-centered methods to follow each person's lead and build trusted rapport. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques and mindfulness practices are used when managing intense emotions and building tolerance for distress. Sessions focus on realistic skills people can use between meetings. She supports work on codependency, forgiveness, shame, obsessive-compulsive patterns, panic, dissociation, and recovery from domestic violence.
Stephanie also offers coaching-style guidance for goal setting and coping with life changes. Therapy is offered in English and delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Scheduling follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person selects Start Therapy, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
Stephanie lists 10 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following a person's lead to build trust and clarify goals. It helps when someone needs a respectful space to talk through feelings and decide what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches clear strategies for reducing anxiety, changing unhelpful thinking, and improving sleep or mood through small behavior changes.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides skills for managing intense emotions and reducing impulsive behaviors. Mindfulness practices often used alongside DBT help ground attention and lower distress during hard moments.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to pick methods that fit needs and preferences rather than using a single fixed model.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to ongoing care. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging can be used for brief exchanges and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice new skills between sessions.
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A practical next step
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