Stephanie Knauer
Calm, practical support for parenting and family life
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stephanie
Stephanie Knauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, parenting challenges, grief, and related concerns. Her tone is practical and direct, aiming to help parents and caregivers find clear steps forward when life feels overwhelming.
Stephanie uses a mix of tools in sessions. She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to manage strong emotions and improve coping in tense moments.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in both inpatient behavioral health and substance abuse treatment settings. That experience gave her exposure to a range of concerns, from mood disorders to addiction and trauma. It also shaped how she blends skills-based work with a focus on everyday functioning.
Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented. Stephanie pays attention to practical changes parents can try between meetings, such as small communication shifts or simple routines. She also values brief, skill-based practices that can reduce stress quickly.
Stephanie earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2016 and a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling in 2018, both from Shippensburg University. She has seven years of professional experience as an LPC and brings that clinical training to parenting and family-related concerns.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Stephanie commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small experiments, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflict in relationships.The right approach often emerges through collaboration. Stephanie works together with each person to pick techniques that match their goals and daily life. She will try different tools and adjust the plan based on what helps most, so the process feels practical and personalized.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families. Video calls let people maintain eye contact and work on communication skills. Phone sessions and live chat can fit into tight schedules or when stepping away from caregiving duties is easier. Text-based messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing practice between sessions. These options make it simpler to use skills consistently and to fit therapy into real life.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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