Stephanie Choo

Therapist in Sugar Land

I am an LPC-Associate, supervised by Alice Payne, RPT-S, LPC-S and Nicole Ponce, LPC-S, LCDC, a Nationally board-Certified Counselor. I have graduated with a Master of Art in Counseling from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and I’m excited to embark on this journey of healing with my clients. I am bilingual Mandarin Chinese, and English.

I specialize in working with couples, families and individuals who have experienced or are experiencing trauma and abuse. I also see individuals who are suffering from anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts or an eating disorder.

While offering trauma-based treatment in my session, I truly focus on the aspects my clients that need closure and healing. I believe everyone can recover from the past and lead their best lives! I truly have faith in the healing and future potentials of my clients! I focus on what my clients want and my clients take the lead in our therapeutic sessions. While I am a person-centered therapist, I incorporate EMDR, positive psychology, CBT, DBT, ACT and etc, as some of my therapeutic modalities, I definitely meet you at where you are and I respect everyone’s worldview. I believe being able to view life from another person’s lenses is one of the most important building blocks to having a strong therapeutic relationship with any of my clients. I am also expected to receive my full EMDR training credentials in EMDR in July 2022.

My area of expertise also include working with those who are grieving the loss of a loved one.

When it comes to offering grief counseling, I am a Certified Grief Counseling Specialist and am trained to provide body-based treatment composed of emotional and behavioral regulation components. I am trained in Grief therapy, understand the circumstances of bereavement and offer appropriate grief counseling treatment approaches to my clients.

I work with children age 8 and above, as I believe in healing the little ones before they make it to adulthood. To assist me better in my therapeutic approaches with my child clients as a child therapist, I have received several certificates, among them are:

• Certified Child and Adolescent Trauma Practitioner,
• Certified Autism Specialist,
• Certified ADHD Professional.

I am trained to understand the neuroscience of childhood trauma, and to administer trauma assessments and also to incorporate play therapy in treatment sessions while understanding the essential components of Trauma-Informed Treatments. I am working towards earning a Registered Play Therapist designation while utilizing child-centered play therapy and sand tray with my young clients.

In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my husband and children, cooking, reading, traveling and spending time in my meditation/prayer room.

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