Stephanie Jose
Calm practical support for life transitions
- Credentials
- LCMHC, LMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- New York, Vermont
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stephanie
Stephanie Jose is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York. She has 20 years of experience helping people through big life changes and moments of crisis. She focuses on mood concerns, self-injury, trauma and abuse, and on building healthier relationships.
Stephanie writes and speaks plainly in sessions and aims to make therapy feel approachable for someone worried about family and parenting matters.
Background and approach
She trained as a Mental Health Counselor and in Creative Arts Therapy, and she draws on both backgrounds in her work. Sessions are shaped to each person rather than following a single standard plan. She uses practical tools and coaching-style guidance alongside traditional talk therapy.
Clients can expect both emotional support and direct skills practice for day-to-day coping. Stephanie blends several evidence-informed methods to match what a person needs. She often uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clarify values, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, and attachment-focused work to improve emotional connection.
She also brings dialectical strategies when emotions feel overwhelming. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She asks questions, offers exercises, and sets small goals together with each person.
That mix helps people notice steady changes and try new ways of relating to themselves and others. Sessions can involve talking, creative exercises, or short skills practices tailored to the moment. Stephanie aims to make therapy useful and realistic for people juggling parenting, work, and everyday stressors.
Therapy approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small, committed steps toward those values. It helps when worry or avoidance keeps you from living the life you want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change painful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy concentrates on how early relationships shape current ways of bonding and reacting, and it can help improve closeness and communication.Finding the right approach is something to do together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. From that conversation she tailors which methods to use and adjusts the plan as needs change so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work between appointments. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation from home. Phone sessions can be easier when screens feel heavy. Live chat or text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching, or between-session follow up. These options can make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy family or work schedule while keeping the focus on steady progress.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York, Vermont
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Stephanie
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- Stop at any point