About Stephanie
Stephanie Risinger is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist with 13 years of clinical experience. She usually sees individuals and helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, parenting-related fatigue, career stress, and concerns like ADHD or bipolar mood challenges.
Stephanie keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She listens for what matters most and helps people set clear, manageable goals.
How Stephanie works
Work may include skill practice, tracking patterns, and building small routines that make daily life easier. Her clinical toolkit includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy. These approaches are used to reduce unhelpful thinking, build helpful actions, and increase present-moment awareness.
She explains techniques in plain language and shows how to use them between sessions. Stephanie trained at California Baptist University, earning a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology in 2009. She later taught psychology as an adjunct professor for five years and has presented at community events and trainings.
Her background combines clinical work and teaching experience. People who reach out often want to feel more stable, cope with loss, improve communication, or manage mood swings. Stephanie offers practical coaching and therapeutic support to help people move toward clearer days.
If someone prefers online formats, she provides video, phone, live chat, and text messaging options.
Stephanie lists 3 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
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCMFT, LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kansas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking actions that matter, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. Online ACT sessions may include exercises to notice unhelpful patterns and short homework tasks to build meaningful routines. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. In remote sessions CBT often uses guided activities, thought records, and behavior experiments that can be practiced between appointments. Mindfulness Therapy helps people learn present-moment awareness and simple attention practices to reduce rumination and increase calm; short guided mindfulness practices can fit naturally into video or audio sessions.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. Together they review what helps and adjust methods so therapy feels useful and realistic.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing through thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, childcare, or travel schedules.
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