About Stephanie
Stephanie Holder is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California. She draws on eight years of experience as a mental health clinician to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and attention difficulties such as ADHD. Her manner is warm and direct, and she focuses on building a respectful working relationship with each person she sees.
She uses straightforward tools from client-centered and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and solution-focused methods are woven into sessions to support practical change and small, manageable goals. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and wants to find motivation for change. Stephanie often helps people facing relationship strain, parenting concerns, career stress, life transitions, and compassion fatigue.
She also works with survivors of trauma, people coping with loss, and those navigating adoption, attachment, or blended family issues. Conversations focus on what matters most to the individual and on concrete steps forward. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person's needs.
She emphasizes respect, curiosity, and building self-compassion while teaching skills you can use between meetings. The goal is to find practical strategies that fit daily life. People who reach out should expect a conversational style that mixes problem-solving with emotional support.
Stephanie encourages gradual change and helps people set realistic, achievable goals for wellbeing.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person's own goals guide the work. It helps when someone needs empathy, a listening space, and support naming what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and attention-related struggles where practical tools help day-to-day functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Stephanie will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then try methods that fit that individual's needs. She uses a collaborative stance, checking in and adjusting the plan as progress or challenges arise.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and full discussion. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are suited to shorter check-ins, homework support, or people who like writing their thoughts between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping a consistent connection with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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