Stephanie Franklin

Stephanie Franklin is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions. She works from a straightforward, respectful stance and focuses on practical steps clients can take. She believes people are the experts on their own stories and draws on those strengths in sessions.

Clients meet someone who listens without judgment and helps them sort through what feels most urgent. Stephanie pays attention to family and parenting concerns, communication problems, control issues, and the emotional fallout of separation and divorce. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, mood struggles, and challenges with self-esteem and isolation.

Her approach centers on collaboration. Sessions focus on identifying patterns that get in the way and trying simple, realistic changes. She uses ideas from Client-Centered Therapy to shape a respectful, strength-based space and borrows tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

Stephanie often works with people coping with complex emotions like guilt, shame, and anger. She also supports those managing ADHD, bipolar symptoms, or the stress that comes with transitions. The emphasis is on small, doable goals that build forward momentum.

Based in Texas, she brings steady practical support to conversations about relationships and life changes. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step clearer and more manageable for each person.

How her approaches adapt to online therapy

Stephanie uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person's own experience guides the work. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and building on a client's strengths to make change feel possible.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and to practice concrete skills. CBT offers tools for managing anxiety, depression, anger, or the stress that follows separation, and those tools translate well to remote conversations and exercises.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. Together they set short-term goals and try strategies, adjusting the plan as progress is made.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm current session options before booking because formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people try techniques between sessions in their everyday routines, which helps generalize changes into daily life.