About Stephanie
Stephanie Knauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and difficult life changes. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people feel steadier in day-to-day life.
Stephanie draws on several approaches to tailor care to each person. She uses somatic ideas to help clients notice how their body holds tension and to build simple body-based skills.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based and client-centered methods to create a steady, respectful space for exploring relationship patterns and self-worth. Her background includes work in inpatient behavioral health and in substance use treatment, both in inpatient and outpatient settings. That experience shaped her comfort with crisis, grief, and addiction-related concerns.
She also has experience supporting people with performance anxiety and chronic stress. Sessions often mix practical skills with attention to physical experience. Clients can expect clear tools from cognitive-behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches alongside grounding body awareness.
Stephanie works to make strategies feel doable between sessions. The LPC credential stands for Licensed Professional Counselor. Stephanie earned a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and has seven years of professional experience.
She offers services in English and provides video, phone, chat, and text session options for flexibility.
How somatic and skills-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations and how tension shows up in daily life. Online sessions can guide simple body awareness exercises, breath work, and grounding practices that help with anxiety, stress, and trauma responses.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape trust and connection. In teletherapy this can mean talking through relationship habits, noticing emotional triggers, and practicing new ways to ask for what is needed.
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening and helping people find their own solutions. It creates a calm space where goals and pacing are set together, which works well across video, phone, chat, or text formats.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Stephanie will work with each person to try methods that fit their goals and comfort level, and adjust as progress is made. That collaborative process helps find practical tools that feel helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy days or limited travel. Video calls let people use visual cues and in-the-moment coaching, while phone or chat options can be easier for quick check-ins. Text-based messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to practice skills in real life and stay consistent with care.
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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