About Stephanie
Stephanie Lanza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California. She offers a calm, straightforward approach for people dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, parenting stress, and other life challenges.
Background and approach
Her style aims to be practical and respectful of each person's pace and priorities. Stephanie draws on client-centered methods that start with listening to what matters most to the individual.
She uses elements of cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns of thinking and try different responses. Solution-focused work helps set small, achievable steps toward change so progress is clear and realistic.
She has eight years of clinical experience and has spent time supporting adoptive and foster parents with the particular stresses that role can bring. That experience informs how she looks at family dynamics and the supports a person might need outside sessions.
Stephanie also works with concerns such as ADHD, compassion fatigue, eating struggles, addictions, and intimacy-related issues. Sessions are presented in a way that aims to fit into busy lives, with flexible options for talking through problems and testing new skills between meetings.
The goal is to help people build tools they can use after therapy ends. Stephanie encourages an open, collaborative process where the plan changes as needs evolve.
Her practice in California combines practical skill-building with steady listening so people feel heard while they try new ways of coping.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. In online sessions this looks like building a plan around a person's priorities and checking in frequently to adjust goals as needed.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. In remote work this often includes brief exercises between sessions and practical homework to test changes in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up, then recommend a mix of approaches. That decision is collaborative and can be revised as progress is tracked.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can provide quicker check-ins, and text messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into real life while still trying structured techniques and coping strategies.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English