About Stephanie
Stephanie Sarafinas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and big life changes. She also supports concerns around parenting, career shifts, sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
With 25 years of experience, Stephanie uses straightforward, practical methods. She blends somatic therapy with cognitive approaches to help people notice what their bodies are saying as well as what their thoughts are doing. Sessions focus on small steps that fit into daily life rather than grand plans that feel overwhelming.
Background and approach
She often uses mindfulness and skills drawn from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. These tools are used together to match what each person needs in the moment.
Stephanie has worked with people coping with trauma, addiction-related behaviors like codependency, chronic pain and illness, caregiver stress, and neurodivergent experiences including autism and Asperger syndrome. She also supports questions about identity, relationship patterns, and life purpose. Her style is collaborative and paced to the client.
She asks simple questions, offers concrete strategies, and checks in about what is helpful. People who prefer a mix of bodily awareness, practical skills, and goal-focused conversation often find this approach useful.
How somatic and skills-based approaches translate online
Stephanie integrates Somatic Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address both bodily responses and thinking patterns. Somatic Therapy helps people notice physical sensations tied to stress and learn gentle ways to shift them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Choosing the right approach is a shared process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not in the past. Then she tailors tools and pacing so work feels manageable and relevant to daily life. Many people find online therapy useful for fitting sessions into busy schedules and keeping momentum between appointments. Because the biography does not state specific session formats, confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to try body-awareness exercises at home, practice mindfulness between sessions, or have shorter check-ins when a full session is not needed. Licensed professionals can use these methods to support progress while matching the approach to each person’s needs.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English