Stephanie Holder

Stephanie Holder is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California. She brings eight years of clinical experience as a therapist and began her career earlier as a social worker, supporting people through depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, and grief.

Her style is warm, interactive, and respectful. She leans on the therapeutic relationship to help clients feel heard and to guide practical change. Sessions focus on clear goals and everyday steps that build toward those goals.

Stephanie uses client-centered work to follow each person’s pace and priorities. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Solution-focused and mindfulness tools help people notice strengths and calm in stressful moments.

She has experience helping people cope with trauma and adverse childhood experiences, caregiving stress, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment and blended family issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, pregnancy and childbirth, and first responder concerns.

Her approach is practical and collaborative. Conversations aim to identify small, useful changes. Clients who value a respectful, goal-oriented therapist will find clear structure alongside empathic listening.

How her approaches translate to online care

Stephanie often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change thoughts and habits that cause distress. Client-centered therapy means she listens and follows each person’s priorities while building a trusting conversation. CBT focuses on identifying patterns and trying new behaviors to see what helps reduce anxiety or depression.

She also uses mindfulness methods to teach simple breathing and attention practices that help with stress, grief, and compassion fatigue. These practices are brief and aimed at calming the nervous system and improving focus during difficult moments.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and adjusts the plan based on what feels most helpful. Clients set the pace and work together with her to try different techniques and track progress.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online work can make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives, such as fitting a session into a lunch break or avoiding travel time. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when needed and make it simpler to practice mindfulness exercises between meetings.