- Warm collaborative care
- Practical coping skills
- Focus on life changes
About Stephanie
Stephanie Holder is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California. She brings eight years of experience as a mental health clinician and focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship concerns. She also helps people facing grief, parenting strain, ADHD-related challenges, and the emotional fallout from trauma or adverse childhood experiences.
Her approach is warm and interactive. Sessions emphasize respect, patience, and working together. Stephanie centers the relationship with each person and looks for practical steps that fit real life. She aims to help people find more self-compassion and clearer direction.
Stephanie draws on client-centered methods to focus on each person’s experience. She integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Solution-focused and mindfulness tools are used to identify small, achievable changes and build calm awareness.
She has worked with many concerns linked to major life transitions, including coping with natural or human-caused disaster and other acute stressors. Her background also includes supporting people facing adoption and foster care issues, attachment and blended family concerns, caregiver stress, and end-of-life care questions.
Stephanie prefers to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s goals. She helps people set manageable steps, practice new skills, and check progress together. To begin, readers are invited to use the site’s matching process and schedule a session when they are ready.
How Stephanie's approaches translate to online therapy
Stephanie often uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening closely, reflecting what matters to you, and helping you discover your own solutions. It suits people who need a supportive space to talk through worries and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps you practice new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety or depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences. That means adjusting pace, trying different tools, and checking in together to see what helps most.
Session options are not listed in the biography, so confirm current formats before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten check-ins on a work break, or avoid travel time. It also allows for using worksheets, brief behavioral experiments, and mindfulness practices between meetings to support progress without promising a particular service.
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Experience
8+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Stephanie commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addictions, parenting challenges, ADHD, and related life changes.
What is her overall therapy style?
Her style is warm, kind, and interactive. She emphasizes a respectful relationship and practical steps you can try between sessions.
What kind of background does she have?
She has eight years of experience as a mental health clinician and social worker focused on a wide range of concerns including trauma and adverse childhood experiences.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She practices in California and holds the LCSW credential, listed as CA LCSW.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; sessions are offered to those located where her California license applies.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.