Stephanie is a Licensed Psychotherapist and dual-licensed LPCC and LADC offering 100% telehealth sessions. With years of clinical experience, she offers a compassionate, non-pathologizing approach that helps clients better understand their struggles, reconnect with their bodies, and build greater agency in their lives. She believes healing begins with curiosity, compassion, and making the complicated feel more manageable.
Her therapeutic approach is grounded in Humanistic therapy and incorporates Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Attachment Theory, Integrative Relationship Therapy, Somatic Therapy, EMDR, Brainspotting, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). She also integrates psychoeducation throughout the therapeutic process. Stephanie’s work is rooted in somatic and neuroscience-based approaches, helping clients explore patterns, process trauma, and move toward wellness and self-understanding.
Stephanie is an interactive therapist who values hearing each client’s story and creating a safe, affirming space for healing. She approaches her work through a social justice lens and is a non-pathologizing, anti-racist, 2SLGBTQQAI+ affirming therapist. She has advanced training in EMDR, Brainspotting, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), and holds certification in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).
Her areas of specialization include trauma, complex trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction and process addictions, obsessive-compulsive patterns, burnout, vicarious trauma, and intimate partner betrayal and trauma. She also conducts Substance Use Evaluations and Forensic Substance Use Evaluations, with particular interest in the connection between addictive behaviors and OCD-related patterns.
Stephanie works with licensed professionals participating in HPSP and collaborates on quarterly reporting requirements. For clients navigating probation or legal involvement, she can coordinate care with legal teams and probation officers when appropriate and authorized through a signed ROI.
She is also a Gambling Treatment Provider certified through the Minnesota Department of Human Services Mental Health Division and has presented publicly on topics including Wernicke encephalopathy, Korsakoff psychosis, addiction, and family systems.
Outside of therapy work, Stephanie enjoys reading and writing in coffee shops, exploring indie bookstores, practicing yoga, weight training, hiking, road trips, photography, and traveling with family. She is currently studying French and brings a deep curiosity about people, psychology, neuroscience, and the complexity of human experience into both her personal and professional life.