Stephanie Lopez (she/her)

My Approach to Helping

As a counseling intern, my work integrates person-centered and systemic perspectives with trauma-informed, mindfulness-based, and somatic approaches. I create a compassionate, strengths-based counseling space where clients can reconnect with themselves, cultivate self-awareness, and develop the tools needed for meaningful and sustainable change. While therapy can involve difficult work, I encourage a spirit of curiosity, creativity, and even playfulness in the healing process. I incorporate elements of ecotherapy, ancestral perspectives, dreamwork, art, and spirituality into my work, supporting clients in deepening their connection to themselves, their environment, and their inner wisdom. Practices that foster body awareness, regulation, and reflection are central to my approach.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I believe that the challenges that bring you to therapy are completely normal and reasonable responses to the various stressors of life. Oftentimes, we just haven't had the opportunity to learn the skills that help us understand or to cope with them. I know that everyone has strength and beauty inside of them and that when there's a will, there's a way towards healing and creating lasting changes in your life. Together, we'll excavate and explore whatever challenges you're going through with compassion, empathy, warmth, and a sense of adventure. My path into the healing professions has been shaped by a diverse background in art, architecture, urban planning, landscape design, conservation work, Reiki, Zen Buddhism, and ancestral healing. My mixed-race, multicultural upbringing and interdisciplinary experiences inform my appreciation for diversity and allow me to draw from a broad range of perspectives and practices when supporting clients on their healing journey.