Stephanie Altomonte, LPC

Stephanie Altomonte is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 16 years of clinical experience. She uses practical methods to help people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and addiction. Her work focuses on clear steps people can try between sessions. She explains things in simple terms and keeps sessions goal-oriented.

Stephanie often blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based and mindfulness strategies. That combination is used to address symptoms like panic, obsessive thoughts, and low mood. She also helps people working through life transitions and questions of life purpose.

She has experience supporting veterans and people dealing with seasonal affective disorder and postpartum depression. Stephanie offers care for those facing relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, or trouble sleeping. She pays attention to practical habits and routines that affect daily mood and functioning.

Sessions include developing coping skills, practicing focused thinking exercises, and using mindfulness to reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help changing behavior such as substance use. The therapist and client set realistic goals and track small steps toward them.

Stephanie invites a collaborative approach. She listens, reflects, and helps people try manageable strategies that fit their life. Her aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, building skills people can use long after sessions end.

Online approaches that match your needs

CBT or cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It uses short exercises and practical homework to reduce worry, panic, and low mood. ACT or acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose meaningful actions aligned with their values. This approach can help with life transitions, chronic anxiety, and motivation. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, non-judgmental conversation where the therapist follows the person's lead to build insight and confidence.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. Together they will try methods that fit the client's situation and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into real life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep regular appointments and try different formats to see what helps most.