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AnewU Counseling Hi, I'm Stephanie. Feel the need to process events, conflicts, & emotions, or simply to vent and tal Does your relationship need work or could be stronger?

Are you getting married soon and are seeking pre-marital classes? Can you not decide in which direction to take you life, education, and/or career? Does your life currently feel out of whack and unbalanced? Have you been feeling sad, down, or blue lately? If any of these sound like you, then it seems as though we should have a talk. Sometimes, we go through adjustments and phases in life, then needing to discuss or "vent." That's okay, too. I am here to help facilitate your journey through change. My name is Stephanie. I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor as well as a Licensed Marriage, Couples, & Family Therapist. I am best suited to dealing with couples therapy, pre-marital counseling, anxiety, depression, wellness counseling, and individual counseling. I welcome UCF, Valencia, Rollins, and Full Sail college students too. I am also working on a niche with military couples & families, including all the variables and stress factors associated with being or having been in the military. Tambien hablo español. My counseling approach is to have a comfortable conversation and listen to you. My theoretical orientation, although eclectic, is existentialism mixed with reality therapy. I am Prepare/Enrich certified & obtained Gottman level 1 training for couples therapy. A nationally certified counselor, I am dually licensed in Marriage/Family Therapy & Mental Health. I conveniently offer TeleHealth Medicine/virtual sessions as well, for clients who cannot make the commute, are traveling out of town, or have other obligations and cannot physically attend session. I also offer sliding scales and free 15-minute consultations to verify if we are a good fit. Feel free to visit my profile on Psychology Today. I accept various insurance plans, such as:
Aetna
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Cigna
EAP - Employee Assistance Program
Optum
Oscar
Out of Network
United Helathcare

To speak directly with our billing specialist to verify plan coverage, please call (407) 706-7162.

Imagine fueling your own happiness instead of trying to find external variables to fill the void. Need help with that? I...
09/25/2026

Imagine fueling your own happiness instead of trying to find external variables to fill the void. Need help with that? I've got you!

POV you have ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive. It's okay, it can kind be a superpower!
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POV you have ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive. It's okay, it can kind be a superpower!

Einstein Wednesday: CBT, but make it canine. Einstein has apparently entered the behavioral intervention portion of his ...
09/23/2026

Einstein Wednesday: CBT, but make it canine.
Einstein has apparently entered the behavioral intervention portion of his treatment plan.

Behavior: bark at absolutely everything.
Trigger: a leaf moved three houses away.
Einstein’s thought: “WE ARE ALL IN IMMEDIATE DANGER.”
Response: BARK BARK BARK
Intervention: the bark collar has entered the chat.

While CBT with humans obviously looks very different, there is a connection here:
Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence one another—and changing what we repeatedly do can help interrupt an established cycle.

In CBT, we might slow down and ask:
“What happened?”
“What did I tell myself about it?”
“What did I feel?”
“What did I do next?”
“And what could I try differently?”

Einstein’s current cognitive restructuring:
Old thought: “Every noise requires an emergency response.”
New thought: “Perhaps the Amazon driver is not here to murder the family.”

We’ll discuss his progress at his next treatment-plan review.

Tidbit Tuesday. I challenge you to pick a coping skill and implement it 3 times this week. What will you choose?⁠⁠⁠⁠ ...
09/22/2026

Tidbit Tuesday. I challenge you to pick a coping skill and implement it 3 times this week. What will you choose?⁠⁠⁠⁠

Happy Monday! Have you scheduled your therapy appointment yet?
09/21/2026

Happy Monday! Have you scheduled your therapy appointment yet?

My therapist thought of the day that came to mind during a recent Lil Wayne concert:Confidence isn't, “Everyone will lik...
09/18/2026

My therapist thought of the day that came to mind during a recent Lil Wayne concert:

Confidence isn't, “Everyone will like me.”

Confidence is, “I’ll be okay if they don’t.”

Reflection Question:
What would you do differently if you trusted yourself 10% more?

Therapists to our clients:“Your job will survive without you.”“Take the PTO.”“Go home.”“Spend time with your family.”“Yo...
09/17/2026

Therapists to our clients:
“Your job will survive without you.”
“Take the PTO.”
“Go home.”
“Spend time with your family.”
“You need boundaries.”
“Rest is productive.”

Therapists when WE have to leave work during a crisis:
“Absolutely not. Everyone needs me. I live here now.” 😭

Sometimes the coping skills, boundaries, and work-life balance we encourage in therapy are the exact same things we have to practice ourselves. Because therapists are humans, too.
And apparently, “practice what you preach” is an ongoing treatment goal.

Einstein has learned his coping skills.Einstein Wednesday reminder: You do not need to wait until you're completely exha...
09/16/2026

Einstein has learned his coping skills.

Einstein Wednesday reminder: You do not need to wait until you're completely exhausted to rest.

You don't have to finish everything first. You don't have to justify being tired. You definitely don't have to earn your blanket privileges.

Sometimes self-care looks less like a morning routine, journaling, or checking something else off the list… and more like getting under the blanket and being unavailable for nonsense.

Tidbit Tuesday: There's truly no point in utilizing brain power, spending your "battery" thinking about things out of ou...
09/15/2026

Tidbit Tuesday: There's truly no point in utilizing brain power, spending your "battery" thinking about things out of our control. Let's focus on what is within our control to obtain the changes you're seeking.

Your therapist should never stop learning.I took this photo while in Canada for a Solution-Focused Brief Therapy confere...
09/14/2026

Your therapist should never stop learning.

I took this photo while in Canada for a Solution-Focused Brief Therapy conference, surrounded by clinicians who were just as curious about becoming better at this work as I am.

And I think there’s something important about that. Clients trust us with their relationships, fears, grief, anxiety, transitions, identities, and some of the most vulnerable parts of their lives. That responsibility deserves more than what we learned in graduate school.

It means continuing to learn, questioning what we think we know, keeping up with the field, being open to doing things differently and remembering that therapists are supposed to grow, too.

One of the things I love about SFBT is the shift from only asking:
“What’s wrong?”
to also asking:
“What’s already working, and how can we create more of it?”

Sometimes therapy isn't about completely rebuilding your life, but about noticing the strengths, exceptions, resources, and small changes that are already there... and building from them.

And yes, traveling to Canada to nerd out about therapy absolutely counts as professional development in my book. 😂

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