Stephanie MacMurtrie
Supportive counselor for family and parenting
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stephanie
Stephanie MacMurtrie is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, relationships, and self-esteem. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Conversations are shaped to fit what matters most to the client.
She aims to create an open environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Her style is collaborative and practical. She listens first, then helps set small goals you can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Stephanie uses straightforward tools to manage anxiety, address relationship conflicts, and boost motivation. She also supports people facing career pressures, parenting challenges, and struggles with substance use. Stephanie draws on several methods to guide sessions.
She uses client-centered work to follow the client’s lead and build trust. Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Mindfulness skills are taught to reduce reactivity and improve focus.
She also applies motivational interviewing to strengthen motivation for change and solution-focused strategies to find workable steps forward. These approaches are chosen to match each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Over time she and the client adjust what’s most helpful.
With seven years of experience, Stephanie blends practical strategies with a warm, respectful approach. She encourages realistic steps and celebrates small wins. Taking the first step can be hard, and she supports people through that beginning.
Online approaches that fit family and parenting needs
Stephanie often uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy during online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and creating a trusting space so clients can speak freely and shape the goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior, then tests small changes to reduce anxiety and improve relationships.She may also bring in mindfulness practices to help people notice stress and respond more calmly. Mindfulness teaches simple attention skills that can lower reactivity and support clearer parenting choices. Together, these methods aim to be practical and easy to practice between sessions.
Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Plans are adjusted over time so the work stays relevant and doable for busy family life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions provide a simpler option, and live chat or text messaging let people connect between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a crowded schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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