- Client-centered focus
- CBT and solutions
- Experience with adoption
About Stephanie
Stephanie Lanza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by depression, anxiety, stress, or life changes. Stephanie works with individuals and parents to address practical problems and emotional strain.
Stephanie uses a calm, strengths-based style. She centers the conversation on each persons needs and goals. Therapy sessions are collaborative and paced to what the client can manage.
Her clinical approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral ideas and solution-focused methods. That means conversations often include noticing unhelpful thoughts, trying small experiments, and building on what already works. Stephanie also applies trauma-focused strategies when past events are getting in the way of daily life.
She has eight years of clinical experience and has worked with people facing grief, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, identity and relationship questions, and attention differences. She also has experience supporting adoptive and foster parents through the unique stresses that can arise in those roles.
Sessions aim to produce clear steps clients can try between meetings. Stephanie helps people break big problems into manageable pieces and track small changes over time. She welcomes questions about how therapy would fit into a particular schedule or situation.
Stephanie uses a calm, strengths-based style. She centers the conversation on each persons needs and goals. Therapy sessions are collaborative and paced to what the client can manage.
Her clinical approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral ideas and solution-focused methods. That means conversations often include noticing unhelpful thoughts, trying small experiments, and building on what already works. Stephanie also applies trauma-focused strategies when past events are getting in the way of daily life.
She has eight years of clinical experience and has worked with people facing grief, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, identity and relationship questions, and attention differences. She also has experience supporting adoptive and foster parents through the unique stresses that can arise in those roles.
Sessions aim to produce clear steps clients can try between meetings. Stephanie helps people break big problems into manageable pieces and track small changes over time. She welcomes questions about how therapy would fit into a particular schedule or situation.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.