Stephanie Freeman
Compassionate clinician focused on practical skills
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stephanie
Stephanie Freeman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience. She practices in North Carolina and supports people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma and other life challenges. Stephanie blends straightforward guidance with practical skills to help people manage day-to-day struggles.
Her sessions are warm and respectful. She listens, asks clear questions, and helps clients set small, doable goals. Conversations focus on what is happening now and on steps clients can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Stephanie uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep problems going. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about making changes.
Her work often addresses issues tied to substance use and coping after trauma or abuse. She also helps with anger, parenting concerns, grief, self-esteem, and life transitions. Sessions aim to be practical and tailored to each person’s situation.
People who want a calm, clear approach that emphasizes skills and small steps may find her style a good fit. Stephanie encourages honest talk and collaborative planning. She supports clients as they try new strategies and track what works over time.
How Stephanie Uses Practical Approaches Online
Stephanie uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people notice and change thought and behavior patterns that make stress or mood problems worse. These skills often include simple exercises to try between sessions and step-by-step plans for handling difficult situations.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach concrete skills for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. DBT tools focus on mindfulness, distress tolerance, and improving emotional control in everyday moments.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Stephanie will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps and what doesn’t.
Online work lets people access therapy in different ways. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions offer flexibility, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins or skill practice between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while continuing to focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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