About Stephanie
Stephanie Birnbaum is an Ohio-licensed LPCC with 36 years of clinical experience. She offers straightforward, compassionate care for adults coping with anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD, addiction concerns, and life transitions. Her approach is structured and practical.
She helps people spot unhelpful patterns and build tools that fit day-to-day life. That includes skills for emotional regulation, clearer boundaries, and stronger decision making. She blends evidence-informed methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy with other practical strategies.
Background and approach
When clients ask, she can incorporate faith perspectives alongside psychological work. The focus is on what the person needs now and next, not on labels or jargon. Sessions are direct and goal-oriented while remaining empathic.
She asks clear questions, offers doable steps, and checks progress regularly. This helps people move from feeling overwhelmed or stuck toward routines that feel manageable. Over her career she has supported people dealing with grief, trauma, relationship strain, career shifts, and parenting stress.
She also works with concerns such as sleeping and eating difficulties, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her experience helps her adapt tools to each person’s situation and pace.
Practical approaches for online care
Stephanie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy as core tools in her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. DBT teaches concrete emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that help when emotions feel overwhelming or when impulse control is a concern.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where client preferences guide which techniques are emphasized.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow shorter, frequent support and can fit into a break or busy day. These options give flexibility to use techniques and practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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