Stephanie Dixon, LPC

Stephanie Dixon is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 13 years of experience. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or navigating big life changes. Her style is warm and interactive, and she invites honest feedback so sessions match each person's needs.

She often focuses on trauma, adoption and foster care concerns, and mood disorders like depression and anxiety. Stephanie also addresses relationship strain, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, eating issues, and career questions. She pays attention to attachment patterns and caregiver stress when those come up.

In sessions she blends practical tools with a relational approach. That means she teaches coping skills and thought strategies while also paying attention to how people connect and heal from past hurt. She prefers to let clients set the pace and direction of therapy while offering clear, straightforward guidance when useful.

Stephanie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside attachment-based and trauma-focused ideas, and she draws on motivational interviewing and client-centered methods when helpful. Those approaches provide a mix of skill-building, exploration of relationships, and focused work on traumatic memories.

Her work is conversational and results-oriented. People can expect homework when it helps, short-term skill practice, and space to talk through painful experiences. Stephanie aims to help people build stronger day-to-day coping, healthier relationships, and clearer paths forward.

How Stephanie’s approaches translate to online work

Stephanie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors. CBT is helpful for anxiety, mood issues, and everyday stress because it breaks problems into manageable steps and practical skills.

She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current reactions and connection patterns. That approach supports people working through attachment issues, caregiver stress, and relationship concerns by exploring how past bonds affect present choices.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Stephanie collaborates with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals and preferences. She welcomes feedback and adjusts pacing, homework, and focus based on what the client says is working.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people practice skills with visual feedback, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work schedules, caregiving duties, or busy lives while keeping the focus on clear, actionable progress.