Stephanie Birmingham, LPC

Stephanie Birmingham is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with five years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, addiction concerns, relationship strain, grief, and coping with life changes. She also notes work related to LGBT issues, trauma and abuse, and anger concerns.

She uses plain, practical conversation to sort out what feels most urgent. Sessions are a place to talk through thoughts and feelings and to try new ways of responding. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) methods to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test small changes in behavior.

Birmingham has experience working in corrections with justice-involved people, and she lists additional focuses such as caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, communication problems, and isolation. That background informs how she approaches practical problems and everyday stressors.

In a typical session she will help set concrete, achievable goals and look at what gets in the way of them. Expect straightforward techniques from CBT alongside conversations about values and daily patterns. The aim is to build skills that make it easier to manage moods and stressful situations.

People seeking help for issues like substance use, attachment concerns, gender dysphoria, self-harm thoughts, or first responder stress will find these topics named in her areas of focus. Sessions are offered in English and reflect her practice in Wisconsin.

How CBT-based work is adapted for online sessions