Stephanie Birmingham, LPC

Stephanie Birmingham is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She meets clients where they are and aims to make conversations straightforward and useful. Her style is direct but warm, with an emphasis on practical steps clients can try between sessions.

Stephanie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on approach that helps people notice unhelpful thinking and then try different behaviors. She often works with people facing addiction, grief, anger, trauma and abuse, and relationship or family concerns. She also supports people dealing with caregiver strain, chronic illness or disability, and issues related to identity and discrimination.

With five years of experience as an LPC in Wisconsin, Stephanie draws on work across settings that include corrections and community care. That background shapes an approach that values clear goals and steady progress. Sessions focus on achievable skills and real-life problem solving.

Clients can expect a collaborative process. Stephanie asks practical questions, helps set short-term goals, and offers tools to test between-session changes. She also attends to attachment concerns, loneliness, and challenges like seasonal mood shifts or first responder stress.

Her practice offers multiple online session formats including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. This makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to pick the format that works best for daily life.

CBT and Online Therapy: Practical Tools That Fit Your Life

Stephanie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in online sessions to help people spot thinking patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, or low self-worth. CBT focuses on small, testable changes in thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.

The best approach is often a mix shaped by each person’s needs. Stephanie works together with clients to choose techniques and set goals. That collaborative process helps decide whether CBT strategies, behavioral experiments, or problem-solving exercises will be most useful for a particular concern.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation when more interactivity is helpful. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth or being on camera is an issue. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to keep momentum between sessions.