Stephanie may be a good fit for you if:

• You have a history of developmental, relational, or family-of-origin trauma and want therapy that addresses both attachment patterns and the nervous system
• You feel shaped by complex relational systems and are seeking coherence, differentiation, and deeper self-understanding rather than quick fixes
• You tend toward anxious, avoidant, or disorganized attachment patterns and want a therapist who can hold nuance without becoming reactive or distant
• You notice your struggles live as much in your body as in your thoughts and want somatic, body-led support
• You feel emotionally intense, shut down, or over-functioning and want help understanding these patterns without being pathologized
• You value depth, creativity, and a therapeutic relationship that feels grounded, attuned, and human

To schedule with Stephanie:

Stephanie accepts some insurances (UHC, Optum, UMR, VACCN) and self-pay. She can also provide a superbill for possible insurance reimbursement, as well as a reduced rate if you qualify. Her rate is $140/session.

Stephanie is the founder of Soul’s Alchemy Collective and a Licensed Professional Counselor–Mental Health Service Provider (LPC-MHSP) with advanced training in trauma, attachment, and nervous system regulation. Clients often experience her as deeply attuned, steady, and emotionally present—someone who can hold complexity while offering clarity and grounding.

Her work is rooted in the belief that healing does not begin with insight alone, but with safety. Stephanie approaches therapy as a relational process where the nervous system is honored, emotions are met with care rather than urgency, and long-standing protective patterns are understood as intelligent responses to earlier environments. She is especially attuned to clients whose emotional experiences have been shaped within complex family, relational, or developmental systems and who are seeking coherence rather than correction.

What makes Stephanie’s approach different is her focus on helping clients understand how they learned to survive—emotionally, relationally, and physically—and why those patterns once made sense. Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, she works with the whole system, helping clients recognize how their nervous system, attachment history, and beliefs learned to organize around safety. From there, therapy becomes a process of gentle re-patterning: building what was missed, softening what no longer serves, and creating new experiences of safety, choice, and connection in the present.

A central part of this work is understanding emotions as purposeful rather than something to fear or control. Stephanie helps clients explore emotions as meaningful signals—guides that point toward needs, boundaries, values, and protective responses—rather than problems to eliminate. When emotions are approached pragmatically and with curiosity, they become sources of information that support regulation, decision-making, and authentic connection.

Stephanie is a certified polyvagal-informed therapist and works through an attachment-based, body-led lens. She pays close attention to how the nervous system organizes around threat, connection, and survival, and she helps clients reconnect with themselves through emotional scaffolding, somatic attunement, and nervous system mapping. Her work often includes movement, posturing, guided drawing, brainspotting and other embodiment practices designed to repair unmet developmental needs and support safe emotional expression. Healing is not forced or rushed; it unfolds through lived, embodied experience.

As an identical twin, Stephanie brings a lived understanding of identity formation, attunement, comparison, and differentiation. This perspective informs her clinical sensitivity to boundaries, self-concept, and the subtle ways relationships shape identity—particularly for clients who have struggled to feel separate, seen, or whole within close relational systems.

Stephanie is also a poet and a lover of music, and she values creativity as a form of regulation and truth-telling. She shares her life with her partner, her sons, her adopted daughter, and more than one beloved cat, and she brings a lived understanding of neurodivergent ways of sensing, thinking, and relating into her work. These parts of her life inform—without overtaking—her clinical presence, shaping a therapy space that feels human, grounded, and deeply respectful.

With Stephanie, therapy is not about fixing who you are. It is about creating enough safety for your nervous system to tell the truth, for old patterns to loosen, and for authentic connection—to yourself and others—to become possible.

Certified In:
Certified Polyvagal-Informed Practitioner (Stephen Porges/Polyvagal Institute model)
Certified Guided Drawing Practitioner (Cornelia Elbrecht model)

Trained In:
Brainspotting (Phases I & II, with somatic integration)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Internal Parts Work (non-IFS, narrative-based and somatically informed)
Somatic Attachment & Developmental Repair
Maslow-Informed Developmental Disruption Framework
Trauma-Informed Nervous System Mapping & Autonomic Integration
Somatic Resourcing & Embodiment Practices (movement/posture, breath, repair touch, containment strategies)
Psychoeducation Through Neuropsychology & Attachment Theory
Narrative Therapy & Symbolic Integration
Therapeutic Use of Creative Expression (writing, drawing, metaphor, and archetype in therapy)
Trauma-Informed Parts Mapping and Narrative Timeline Work
Grief-Informed Practice with a Nervous System Lens
Developmental Trauma & Complex PTSD Treatment Models
Applied Neuropsychology
Advanced Attachment Repair
Clinical Use of Therapeutic Writing & Narrative Exposure
From Freeze to Thaw: Unlocking Trauma in the Body with Brainspotting

Currently Studying/Expanding:
Deep Brain Reorienting
Neuroexperiential Model: Using Fiction, Memoir, and/or Poetry to Deepen Healing