Stephanie Lanza, LMFT

Stephanie Lanza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Southern California. With 8 years of clinical experience, she provides counseling for children, adolescents, and adults facing a broad range of concerns such as depression, anxiety, trauma, abuse, ADHD, and family or relationship challenges.

She also has extensive experience supporting adoptive families and resource or foster parents, helping them navigate the specific dynamics and stresses that can arise in adoption and foster care situations. Her work emphasizes a client-centered, strengths-based stance that highlights each person and family's existing resources and goals.

Stephanie integrates practical techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused methods, and Family Systems perspectives to design interventions that fit individual needs. As an LMFT - a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - she combines clinical training with pragmatic strategies to help clients clarify priorities, develop coping strategies, and make steady progress. She looks forward to partnering with individuals and families as they work toward their therapeutic goals.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Stephanie commonly integrates Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Trauma-Focused Therapy into her online practice. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy and the client’s own strengths to guide progress and is well suited to relationship concerns, self-esteem work, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical tools for anxiety, depression, and everyday coping challenges. Trauma-Focused Therapy provides a structured way to address the effects of traumatic experiences and to build skills for managing intense reactions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Stephanie works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and may combine techniques as the work evolves. This collaborative process helps tailor care to what feels most useful for the individual or family.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility: sessions can occur by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity while traveling, or receive support from one’s own setting. Licensed professionals and therapists can adapt these approaches effectively for remote care to support consistent access to treatment.