About Stefanie
Stefanie Janes is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan with 11 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, parenting questions, and life changes. She works with adults who want clearer direction around career choices, motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, focused on practical steps you can use between sessions.
She follows a humanistic, whole-person approach that looks at mind, body, emotions, relationships, values, and life circumstances.
Background and approach
In sessions she creates a collaborative space where people can talk openly and set goals that matter to them. Conversations are paced to fit each person's readiness to change. Stefanie helps people build concrete coping tools for worry, low mood, and stress.
She also supports those navigating pregnancy and postpartum challenges, seasonal mood shifts, and transitions like moving from K-12 to college. Communication struggles, caregiver stress, and family of origin issues are common topics she addresses. Her work also includes support around autism and Asperger syndrome, sexuality concerns, social anxiety, and feelings of isolation or shame.
Stefanie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques while tailoring each plan to an individual's life and goals. She aims to make therapy relevant and doable for busy lives. People who choose her often want steady, practical guidance rather than quick fixes.
She helps clients identify small, sustainable changes and build confidence to carry them out. If you are looking for a thoughtful, collaborative counselor in Michigan, Stefanie offers a thoughtful, strengths-based approach.
How her methods translate to online work
Stefanie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical problem solving and personal growth. One approach emphasizes building coping tools for anxiety and stress, teaching step-by-step strategies to manage worry, mood shifts, and overwhelm. Another approach centers on humanistic, whole-person work that looks at emotions, relationships, values, and life circumstances to help people find meaning and direction.Finding the right approach is part of the process, and Stefanie works with each person to pick or combine methods that fit their goals and preferences. She aims for collaboration so clients help shape the plan and adjust techniques as they learn what works for them.
Confirm current session formats before booking, as the profile does not list specific online options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy routines, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also help people continue steady work on goals during life transitions or when scheduling constraints make in-person visits difficult. Licensed professionals adapt techniques for virtual settings so therapy stays practical and focused on day-to-day changes.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English