Stephanie Thomas, LPC - Therapist in Texas

About Stephanie

Stephanie Thomas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of experience. She brings a warm, respectful manner to sessions and focuses on practical strategies parents and individuals can use right away. Stephanie speaks plain language, listens closely, and helps people set small, doable goals for change.

She uses a mix of evidence-based approaches to address common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and trauma. Relationship and family matters are a regular focus, along with parenting challenges and intimacy-related issues.

Background and approach

She also works with people facing career questions, grief, and struggles with self-esteem or life purpose. Stephanie draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. In practice this looks like learning skills to manage intense feelings, noticing unhelpful thought patterns, and building values-driven routines.

She helps clients repair connection, set boundaries, and improve day-to-day functioning. Her additional focus areas include abandonment and attachment concerns, blended family issues, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, and infidelity. She also supports people coping with impulsivity, guilt, shame, isolation, and compassion fatigue.

Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal oriented. Based in Texas, Stephanie offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She approaches each person with sensitivity and aims to help them find practical steps toward a more manageable, meaningful life.

Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting support

Stephanie often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice what matters to them and take small actions aligned with their values. ACT is helpful for anxiety, stress, and making choices when life feels overwhelming.

She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach focuses on improving connection, trust, and communication in relationships and can be useful for people worried about attachment or abandonment concerns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adjust methods as needed. Sessions may draw from different approaches so the plan fits the person and the situation.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules, allow follow up between sessions, and let people choose what feels most comfortable. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, practice conversations, and support changes over time.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address?

She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, parenting, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, and career questions.

What is her therapeutic style?

Her style is warm and engaging with a focus on practical skills. Sessions emphasize listening, skill-building, and small goals clients can try between meetings.

How much experience does she have?

She has 20 years of experience working as a therapist and in leadership roles such as clinical director and executive director.

Where is she licensed and located?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - licensed in Texas with license number TX LPC 62409.

Which languages are supported?

Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.

How is cost handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I get started?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Trauma and abuse
Career difficulties

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 20 years
Licensed: Texas
Languages: English

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