About Stephanie
Stephanie Collins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Wisconsin who works from a client-centered stance and brings ten years of clinical experience to her practice.
Background and approach
She emphasizes collaboration, treating each person as the expert on their own life while offering guidance and resources to reach practical, meaningful goals. Her work includes helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, self-esteem struggles, and coaching around life transitions.
She also attends to issues that can intersect with mental health, including cancer, domestic violence, isolation and loneliness, post-traumatic stress, sexual assault and abuse, and women's issues. Stephanie draws on evidence-informed approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy to tailor interventions to individual needs.
Her manner is nonjudgmental and curious, designed to create a comfortable space where clients can participate in decisions about their well-being and set realistic, relevant goals. Stephanie aims to support people as they identify strengths, access resources, and move toward a better quality of life.
Approaches for Online Healing and Practical Change
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a respectful, collaborative relationship where the client guides the pace and priorities of treatment. This approach helps people feel heard and involved in decisions about their mental health and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers structured tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more adaptive patterns; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing and integrating traumatic experiences in ways that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning, using techniques tailored to each person's needs.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works together with the client to determine which methods are the best fit based on symptoms, goals, and personal preferences. That collaborative decision-making guides how sessions proceed and which strategies are emphasized.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexible ways to engage in care. These formats can make it easier to attend regularly, accommodate changing schedules, and allow people to access licensed professionals from their own locations while still receiving structured, evidence-informed interventions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Depression
- Coaching
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Illinois
- Languages
- English