Stephanie Maxwell, LPC
Somatic-informed counselor helping with trauma and stress
About Stephanie
Stephanie Maxwell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, and LGBT-related issues. Stephanie combines practical strategies with attention to how the body holds stress so people can find relief that fits their lives.
She uses Somatic approaches alongside cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
That awareness is paired with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) skills to clarify values and take small, steady steps forward. Sessions also draw on attachment-based ideas to improve how people connect and communicate with others. In sessions, Stephanie listens closely and tailors exercises to each person’s needs.
That might look like grounding practices, behavior-based experiments, or value-focused actions to manage worry and depression. She aims to keep sessions practical and easy to apply between meetings. Many clients come with complicated histories such as trauma, attachment wounds, or chronic health challenges.
Stephanie works with these issues by creating a predictable, collaborative pace and offering concrete tools for regulation and coping. She also supports those exploring identity and intimacy questions, including people involved in kink or nontraditional sexual cultures. Her work is straightforward and respectful.
People can expect an approach that balances body-based techniques, mindful awareness, and clear behavioral steps. Stephanie helps people build skills that fit their daily routines and long-term goals.
How Somatic and Acceptance-Based Work Translate Online
Somatic-informed work helps people tune into bodily signals such as tension, breath, and posture to better understand stress and emotion. Online sessions can guide gentle body awareness, grounding exercises, and breath practice that clients can use at home to reduce physical symptoms of anxiety or overwhelm.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions in that direction. In remote sessions this looks like values clarification, simple behavioral experiments, and exercise assignments that are easy to practice between meetings. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns of connection and communication to improve relationships and reduce reactivity, using conversation and exercises to rehearse new ways of relating.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to try techniques, notice what helps, and adjust the plan based on their goals and comfort level. This gives space to combine body-based practices with thought-focused or values-driven work as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. That range makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to practice strategies in the places you live your life. It also allows consistent access to a licensed professional from Pennsylvania while using tools that support progress between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English