About Stephanie
Stephanie Trahant is a licensed professional counselor in Virginia. She focuses on relationship strain, grief, stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach and often gives simple exercises clients can try between sessions.
Stephanie describes her style as a mix of counselor, coach, and spiritual guide when clients want that perspective. She pays attention to the whole person and uses writing and conversation to help people name feelings.
How Stephanie works
Sessions can include short homework tasks when that fits a person's goals. Grief work is a particular area she values. She stays with people through loss and helps them find ways to remember, process, and move forward.
Humor and honest emotion are both welcome in her room. Her tools draw from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Existential Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. She picks methods that match each person's needs rather than following a single formula.
Stephanie has worked in counseling for about 12 years and earned her master’s degree from Colorado Christian University in 1998. She combines professional training with life experience as a parent and a longtime writer to help people find words for their feelings. She offers online options that include chat-based sessions and writing-focused exchanges, along with live calls.
Those who want to explore meaning, heal from trauma, or manage everyday stress may find her practical, warm style useful.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Stephanie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. CBT offers concrete tools people can practice between sessions to see steady improvements.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a trauma-focused approach that helps process painful memories and reduce their emotional intensity. EMDR can be useful for people coping with past trauma, abuse, or distressing events.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what feels most comfortable, then recommend methods to try together. Adjustments are made along the way so the plan matches each person's needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations, phone can be a simpler way to check in, and chat or text helps people who prefer writing their thoughts. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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