Stephanie Crume, LPC

Stephanie Crume is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 13 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues related to LGBT identity. She also supports people dealing with sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, and life changes. Her approach treats the person, not just symptoms. She works collaboratively and respects that clients know their own stories and strengths. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings and steady progress toward clearer goals. Stephanie draws on a range of therapeutic methods to match a person's needs. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and develop new habits. She incorporates acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values, even amid distress. Attachment-based perspectives inform work around close relationships, abandonment, and communication problems. For emotional regulation and distress tolerance she may use strategies from dialectical behavior therapy. Existential questions about meaning, purpose, and choices are also part of longer conversations when people want them. Clients often bring multiple concerns at once, such as chronic health issues, caregiving stress, or co-occurring mood and attention challenges. Stephanie supports those navigating adoption and foster care histories, blended family dynamics, and commitment or control issues. She aims to make therapy straightforward and focused on what matters to each person.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values, which can reduce avoidance and increase meaning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns like worry or disrupted sleep. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationship patterns shape trust, intimacy, and communication, which can help with abandonment, blended family stress, and closeness issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adapt methods as needs evolve. Sessions are collaborative, with therapist and client checking what helps and shifting focus when something isn’t working.

Confirm the specific session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. It also enables regular work on skills like thought records, behavioral experiments, and values-based actions between sessions. Licensed professionals can tailor homework and session pacing to what fits a person’s day-to-day routine.