Modalities
Each person is unique, and therapy should reflect that. At Manatee Mental Health, Stephanie uses a flexible, individualized approach rather than expecting every client to fit into one specific type of therapy.
Depending on your needs, therapy may include tools for processing trauma, understanding patterns, building insight, practicing coping skills, strengthening self-compassion, exploring parts of yourself, or making changes that feel realistic in everyday life.
Approaches Stephanie Uses Most Often
Brainspotting
A body-based approach often used to help process trauma, emotional pain, and experiences that feel stuck.
Internal Family Systems / Parts Work
An approach that helps you understand different parts of yourself with curiosity instead of shame.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
An approach that helps you make room for difficult thoughts and feelings while moving toward what matters to you.
Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
A way to notice thoughts, emotions, and behaviors while practicing more present-moment awareness.
Additional Approaches Stephanie May Use
Strength-Based Therapy
A focus on identifying your strengths, resilience, values, and what is already helping you survive and grow.
Solution-Focused Therapy
A practical approach that helps identify small, realistic steps toward change.
Psychoeducation
Learning about mental health, trauma, emotions, relationships, and the nervous system so your experiences make more sense.
ICBT
An approach that can be helpful for OCD and intrusive thoughts by exploring reasoning patterns and doubt.
Experiential Therapy
Therapy that moves beyond talking alone and may include reflection, noticing, imagery, emotion, or body-based awareness.
Harm Reduction
A compassionate approach focused on safety, choice, and reducing harm rather than shame or all-or-nothing expectations.
Family Systems
An approach that looks at how family, relationships, roles, and patterns may shape your experiences.
Somatic Skills
Body-based tools that support nervous system regulation, grounding, and connection with the present moment.
Polyvagal Theory
A framework for understanding how the nervous system responds to stress, safety, connection, and overwhelm.
Feminist Theory
An approach that considers the impact of culture, power, identity, relationships, and lived experience on mental health.
Learn More About These Approaches
If you're interested in learning more about the approaches Stephanie uses most often, these websites may be a helpful place to start.
- Brainspotting — Learn more about Brainspotting and how it may support trauma processing, emotional pain, and experiences that feel stuck.
- Internal Family Systems Institute — Learn more about Internal Family Systems, parts work, and approaching different parts of yourself with curiosity and compassion.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — Learn more about ACT, including acceptance, mindfulness, values, and committed action.
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy — Learn more about MBCT and how mindfulness and cognitive therapy can work together.
