Stephanie Howard, LCSW
Licensed in California · 17 years in practice
Stephanie Howard is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience in mental health.
License and registration
- LCSW, California
- 27501 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1407927650 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
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About Stephanie
Stephanie Howard is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience in mental health. She practices in California and offers a calm, practical approach to common life stresses. She focuses on clear, doable steps so parents and individuals can feel steadier day to day.
Stephanie uses methods drawn from client-centered work and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people recognize unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at longer-standing themes that affect current choices.
Background and approach
Sessions are guided by the person in front of her and adapted to each situation. Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient mental health, schools, and community clinics. That range of settings shaped a flexible manner and an ability to work with many kinds of challenges.
She has helped people handle stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Parents and caregivers will find direct, practical support for parenting concerns, postpartum depression, and adoption or foster care related issues. Stephanie also assists people facing career stress, workplace problems, addiction concerns, and difficulties with self-esteem or loneliness.
In sessions she emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Treatment plans are tailored to each person's goals and priorities. Stephanie aims to help people move toward a more manageable, more hopeful daily life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Stephanie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Approaches Stephanie names
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, understanding your priorities, and shaping sessions around your goals. It helps when people need empathy, steady support, and a space to talk through parenting stress, grief, or self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches simple skills and experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. This approach is often used for stress, anxiety, and mood-related concerns.
Psychodynamic therapy pays attention to recurring patterns and past influences that shape current choices. It can help people who want to understand deeper themes affecting relationships, career decisions, or repeated emotional reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversations and shared resources, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can be good for quick check-ins or when typing helps express things. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Stephanie help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, relationship issues, grief, addictions, self-esteem, career strain, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is client-centered and practical. She uses Cognitive Behavioral and psychodynamic ideas to help people notice patterns and try different responses.
What experience does she bring?
She has 17 years of professional work experience across inpatient and outpatient mental health, schools, and community-based clinics and non-profits.
Where is she licensed and based?
Stephanie holds a California LCSW license and practices in California.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not accepted at this time.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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