Stephanie Douple

Stephanie Douple, LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas with three years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. Stephanie also focuses on attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, codependency, and caregiver stress among other related issues.

She draws on her own lived experience with substance misuse and mental health to inform her practice. That background shaped her decision to return to school and pursue counseling. Her style is person-centered and grounded in approaches she uses in sessions, including Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as part of the work.

In sessions she aims to reduce stigma and make difficult topics easier to talk about. Conversations tend to be straightforward and practical. She helps people name patterns, practice different ways of responding, and try new coping skills between meetings.

Stephanie’s personal history includes time in the performing arts and work in marketing and talent management, which inform how she connects with creative and career transitions. She frames setbacks as material to work with rather than obstacles to hide. Her guidepost phrase is “It is what it is.”

Background and approach: Stephanie uses evidence-based techniques alongside person-centered conversation. She may draw on REBT to challenge unhelpful thinking, IFS to look at inner parts and their roles, and EMDR-style approaches for trauma processing when appropriate. She invites a collaborative process where the person and therapist decide what to try, and she encourages small, practical experiments to test new responses in daily life.

How evidence-based methods translate to online sessions

Stephanie uses a mix of evidence-based techniques and person-centered conversation. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) focuses on identifying and challenging unhelpful beliefs, helping people test different ways of thinking when anxiety or self-criticism shows up. Internal Family Systems (IFS) looks at the different parts inside a person and their roles, which can help with attachment issues, codependency, or strong emotional reactions.

She also integrates EMDR-style approaches for trauma work when that fits the person’s needs. EMDR techniques can help process distressing memories and reduce their intensity, while the other methods focus on thinking patterns and internal parts. Choosing which approach to use is collaborative: the therapist and client discuss goals and preferences, then agree on what to try and adjust as they go.

The practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions into a busy life and keeping therapy consistent during transitions. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm current options before booking. Many people find remote sessions make it easier to keep appointments, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so sessions can fit around work, caregiving, or other obligations. Licensed professionals can adapt the evidence-based techniques mentioned here to remote formats when appropriate.