Stephanie Arzavala-Reed, LCPC, LCMHC

Stephanie Arzavala-Reed is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and major life changes. She holds LCPC and LCMHC credentials and brings ten years of clinical experience to her practice. People come to her for concerns like depression, grief, trauma, and issues related to identity and intimacy.

She emphasizes a person-centered approach that centers each conversation on what matters most to the client. Sessions often combine elements of cognitive behavioral work and solution-focused strategies to help people identify specific steps forward. Mindfulness and acceptance techniques are used when they fit a person's goals and style.

Stephanie listens for the practical problems behind emotional pain. She helps clients build coping skills, strengthen communication, and clarify priorities. For someone facing a midlife transition, career uncertainty, or parenting strain, she helps map realistic next steps.

Her work includes support for people coping with trauma, LGBTQ concerns, first responder stress, and complicated grief. She also addresses attachment and abandonment issues, relationship commitment worries, and patterns like avoidance or dissociation. Treatment plans are shaped around what a person wants to change.

Sessions include skill teaching and straightforward planning alongside time to talk through feelings. Stephanie pairs education about common reactions with hands-on tools clients can use between sessions. She invites collaboration so clients leave with clear options and small, achievable goals.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can help when midlife changes or chronic worry make it hard to move toward a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying out different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. It is often used for stress, mood problems, and relationship worries.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Stephanie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Check the platform for the current session formats before booking, since specific options are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that suits someone’s schedule. It also makes it possible to practice skills in the settings where problems actually occur, with the therapist’s guidance on next steps.