About Stephanie
Stephanie Harnish is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She brings 12 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and related concerns. Stephanie emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental approach that aims to make people feel heard from the first meeting.
Her background includes outpatient mental health settings and independent practice. She has worked with trauma-focused care and uses approaches that address how past events affect daily life.
Background and approach
Stephanie combines practical tools with attention to emotional safety during treatment. In sessions she often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build healthier habits. She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills.
When trauma is central, she includes EMDR-informed strategies alongside mindfulness practices to reduce intense reactions. Stephanie works with people coping with addiction, anger, bipolar disorder, panic and phobias, and personality-related challenges. She also addresses issues like attachment, abandonment, guilt, shame, and life purpose.
Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented, with clear steps and homework when helpful. People who prefer straightforward conversation and practical tools may find her approach useful. She offers sessions in English and practices as an LMHC in New York.
The first steps include a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time to meet.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, validation, and building a trusting relationship. It helps when someone needs a calm space to talk through emotions and make decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that increase anxiety or depression. It often includes short exercises and homework that work well between sessions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used when trauma is a key issue. In an online setting it can be adapted into paced procedures that help reduce the intensity of traumatic memories while the therapist guides the steps.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Stephanie will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit the concern, and adjust plans as progress is made. Clients help shape which techniques are emphasized during treatment.
Online therapy offers real flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills work and deeper emotional processing. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, and between-session support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English