About Stephanie
Stephanie Holder is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California. She brings eight years of professional experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship challenges. Her style is warm and direct, and she aims to make conversations feel manageable and clear for worried parents and busy adults.
Stephanie takes a client-centered approach that focuses on each person's real-life needs. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and build practical habits.
How Stephanie works
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods guide short-term goal setting and moments of change. She has worked with people dealing with trauma and adverse childhood experiences, addictions, attention difficulties such as ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those navigating adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and the emotional fallout of divorce or separation.
Sessions cover parenting concerns, intimacy and commitment worries, career transitions, midlife questions, and end-of-life or hospice-related stress. Stephanie helps people manage anger, guilt, shame, and the practical side of coping with natural or human-caused disasters. Her approach emphasizes collaboration, respect, and clear, achievable steps.
Therapy with Stephanie typically blends conversation, practical exercises, and short-term planning. She works with each person to tailor strategies that fit daily routines and family life. The aim is steady progress that feels realistic and sustainable.
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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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person's priorities. Online sessions use that same emphasis on the person's goals and strengths to shape each meeting. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot negative thinking and practice different behaviors; it works well over video or phone because it uses specific exercises and homework that can be reviewed together. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce stress and improve focus, and those practices are easy to learn during a live session or through text check-ins.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Stephanie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and daily life. That plan can change over time as needs shift, and she will help adjust techniques so they feel useful and achievable.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited time for travel. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a quicker check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short updates or on-the-go reflection. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to practice new skills between sessions.
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