Stephanie Arzavala-Reed, LCPC, LCMHC

Stephanie Arzavala-Reed is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with ten years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues related to intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports people navigating parenting challenges, career changes, bipolar conditions, and compassion fatigue.

Stephanie favors practical, evidence-informed methods including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), client-centered work, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies. Sessions focus on clear goals, skills practice, and steps people can try between meetings. She explains concepts plainly and helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and habits.

Her work includes attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, communication and commitment issues, dissociation, blended family challenges, and complicated emotions such as guilt, shame, and emptiness. She also addresses first responder stress, hoarding tendencies, and forgiveness work. In session she breaks problems into manageable parts and focuses on achievable next steps.

Stephanie asks about each person’s priorities and collaborates on a plan that fits those goals. She uses psychoeducation, hands-on coping skills, and short-term problem solving alongside longer-term behavior change work. Conversations are goal-directed and concrete, with practical tools to try between sessions.

People meet her when they want straightforward strategies for managing symptoms and improving day-to-day functioning. Her approach combines talk, behavioral experiments, and mindfulness exercises to reduce distress and build new habits over time.

How her approaches translate to online sessions