Stephanie Harnish, LMHC

Stephanie Harnish is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with 12 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem struggles, addiction, anger, bipolar disorder, depression, and life changes.

Stephanie combines straightforward, skills-based work with listening and practical problem solving. She uses cognitive behavioral methods to notice unhelpful thoughts and habits, and she draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s goals. Dialectical behavior skills and mindfulness strategies are part of her toolbox when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed.

Stephanie also offers trauma-focused interventions and uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, where appropriate, to address past events that continue to affect daily functioning. She has worked primarily in outpatient mental health programs and has experience in private practice settings. Her background includes recovery-oriented care that centers the person seeking help.

Sessions tend to focus on clear, actionable steps: identifying troublesome thoughts, testing different responses, building coping skills, and tracking progress between meetings. Stephanie uses motivational interviewing techniques to support behavior change and readiness for work on difficult topics.

People who prefer a direct, practical approach that combines talk and skill practice may find this style helpful. She conducts work in English and practices in New York as an LMHC. To confirm current session formats before booking, prospective clients should check the therapist's scheduling options.

How Stephanie uses structured approaches in online work