About Stephanie
Stephanie Hartman is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing addiction, trauma, anxiety, parenting pressures, relationship strain, career stress, and life transitions. She brings ten years of clinical experience in New York to each conversation. Her work often focuses on building self-esteem, improving communication, and strengthening coping skills.
She shapes sessions around the person in front of her, not a one-size plan. Conversations are collaborative and centered on what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
Practical tools are offered alongside space to process feelings. Stephanie uses a mix of approaches to match real-life needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking.
Mindfulness practices help with grounding and emotion regulation. She also uses motivational interviewing when people are working through addiction or readiness for change. Clients can expect clear, straightforward strategies aimed at day-to-day improvement.
That might mean small behavior changes, communication skills to reduce conflict, or steps to manage panic and stress. Sessions also address family dynamics and attachment struggles when those are part of the problem. Her background includes helping people recover from domestic violence, substance use, and dissociation, as well as working with those navigating fertility difficulties and blended family concerns.
Stephanie aims to support steady progress so clients feel more capable in ordinary moments.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and make choices that fit their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns; this approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful for intense emotions and relationship conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily routines and then recommend techniques that fit. That collaborative process may combine CBT, DBT, mindfulness, or motivational interviewing depending on what the client needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into a busy life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and chat or messaging can suit quick updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people access care while keeping scheduling flexible and reducing travel time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English