- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Stephanie
Stephanie Bigham is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting concerns. She works from North Carolina and brings a practical, down-to-earth style to online care. Stephanie encourages steady steps and keeps the tone hopeful and solution minded.
She uses acceptance and mindfulness paired with cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people notice how thoughts and feelings influence behavior. Sessions often include straightforward skills, gentle self-observation, and small assignments to practice between meetings.
Background and approach
The aim is increased awareness and more effective coping for day-to-day life. Her background includes work in mental health clinics, hospitals including NICU settings, respite programs, classrooms, and independent practice. She also has experience as a stay-at-home parent and substitute teacher for grades K-5, which informs a practical view of family and parenting pressures.
She holds a Master of Social Work from Florida International University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Florida. Stephanie blends education with therapeutic work, offering psychoeducation alongside therapeutic techniques to build skills for stress, relationship conflict, and life transitions. She asks clients to be active participants and often assigns short practice tasks to reinforce new habits.
Her approach is collaborative and goal focused. People seeking help with parenting challenges, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, career difficulties, or coping with major life changes will find a pragmatic, encouraging clinician who values resilience and steady progress.
What Stephanie works with
Everything Stephanie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Stephanie helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Stephanie lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that fit online parenting and life challenges
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and values-driven action. It helps people accept difficult feelings while choosing behaviors that match what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with change.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods as needed. This is a collaborative process where feedback and small experiments guide which strategies feel most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect - video calls for deeper conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between visits. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, allow shorter touchpoints on tough days, and provide different ways to practice skills outside a session.
Questions people ask about Stephanie
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, relationship and family problems, mood disorders, and related challenges such as sleep issues, anger, and life transitions.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style combines acceptance and mindfulness with cognitive-behavioral tools and solution-focused techniques. Sessions are practical and often include exercises to try between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 20 years of experience across clinics, hospitals, respite programs, classrooms, and independent practice settings.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, NC LCSW, practicing from North Carolina.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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