Stephanie Fuertes

Stephanie Fuertes is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people manage stress, anger, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and trauma. She meets adults navigating life transitions, difficult emotions, and behavior changes. Her tone is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at people who want practical help without judgment.

Stephanie uses a person-centered approach that treats the client as the expert on their life. She combines that with cognitive behavioral strategies to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also brings trauma-informed thinking to understand how past events shape present reactions.

Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. Stephanie often helps people learn coping skills, experiment with new ways of responding, and rehearse different choices outside sessions. She uses mindfulness tools to reduce reactivity and support emotional regulation.

With six years of clinical experience, Stephanie draws from a few complementary methods rather than one fixed plan. She adapts her work to each person's needs and pace. This can include short-term problem solving or longer work on deep patterns that keep showing up.

Stephanie offers services in English and Spanish and works with concerns such as addiction, bipolar symptoms, parenting stress, body image, attachment wounds, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue. People who value a down-to-earth, collaborative therapist may find her style a good fit.

How her approaches translate to online work

Stephanie commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, building trust, and helping people make choices that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at unhelpful thoughts and teaches concrete skills to change reactions and behavior.

She also incorporates Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice stress and anger in the body and practice simple techniques for calming down. These approaches can be used together to address stress, anger, trauma reactions, and relationship patterns in a focused way.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to try short-term, solution-focused steps or deeper, trauma-informed exploration.

Confirm current session options before booking, as specific formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and mindfulness practices to work well in virtual sessions.