Stephanie Howard, LPCC

Stephanie Howard is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in Kentucky with seven years of clinical experience. She brings a strength-based, client-centered approach to work with children, teens, parents, families, adults, and couples, meeting each person where they are and building on the strengths she observes.

Her training spans cognitive approaches, Christian counseling, art therapy, and play therapy, and she commonly integrates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness techniques, and solution-focused strategies to tailor care to individual needs. Stephanie focuses on practical skill-building, helping people develop healthier ways to manage stress, anxiety, anger, grief, and depression while supporting improvements in parenting and family relationships.

Stephanie enjoys guiding clients to notice positive elements in their lives, imagine future possibilities, and create concrete steps toward their goals. Her areas of specialty include stress, anxiety, family issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, addictions, LGBT concerns, relationships, grief, parenting, anger, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue, with additional focus on attachment issues, body image, divorce and separation, panic disorder, self-love, social anxiety, and women's issues.

She earned a BS in Child and Family Studies from Eastern Kentucky University and an MA in Licensed Professional Clinical Counseling from Liberty University. Stephanie served as a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate in Kentucky beginning in 2017 and became a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in 2019. LPCC indicates a state license to provide professional clinical counseling. She continues to refine her clinical skills through ongoing education.