About Stephanie
Stephanie Tumba is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington with seven years of professional experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She also supports those coping with compassion fatigue, addictions, grief, sleep problems, and career concerns.
Stephanie aims to make starting therapy feel doable and respectful. Her style is direct and compassionate. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals.
How Stephanie works
Sessions focus on practical steps that fit daily life. Conversations are shaped to your needs rather than a fixed protocol. Stephanie uses tools from acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more helpful ones. Mindfulness practices and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are introduced when they fit the situation. She has experience addressing relationship and family problems, parenting stress, attachment concerns, and issues linked to aging or caregiving.
Stephanie also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, trauma and abuse, and identity topics including LGBT matters. Every plan is tailored. Stephanie works with clients to set realistic steps they can use between sessions.
Her goal is to help people build skills that make daily life easier and more satisfying.
Stephanie lists 5 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches adapted for online care
Stephanie commonly uses acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people identify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when emotions are hard. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new, more useful ways of thinking and acting.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie will talk with clients about goals and preferences and will recommend techniques that fit their situation. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people meet face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and fit schedules that require flexibility. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while matching how a person prefers to communicate.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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