Stephanie Clausen-Swenson, LMFT, LPCC
Minnesota · 15 years in practice
Stephanie Clausen-Swenson is a licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed professional clinical counselor in Minnesota with 15 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LPCC, Minnesota
- 891 · expires October 2026
- LMFT, Minnesota
- 2975 · expires December 2026
- NPI
- 1154727105 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Stephanie
Stephanie Clausen-Swenson is a licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed professional clinical counselor in Minnesota with 15 years of clinical experience. She combines practical, down-to-earth care with a focus on emotional connection and attachment. Stephanie draws on multiple approaches to help people manage stress, grief, anxiety, parenting questions, and relationship strains.
She emphasizes collaboration during sessions. Stephanie listens first, then helps clients clarify goals and take small, achievable steps.
Background and approach
Her style mixes conversation with hands-on techniques like breathing exercises, guided imagery, and role-play to practice new ways of relating. Attachment and emotionally focused ideas shape how she looks at relationships and close bonds. Stephanie connects early attachment patterns to current challenges and helps people notice how emotions guide behavior.
She also uses cognitive tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Her background includes work supporting parenting concerns, adoption and foster care topics, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and fertility-related distress. She has also supported people dealing with trauma, loss, chronic illness, and career transitions.
Stephanie pays attention to practical life steps alongside emotional healing. Sessions aim to be straightforward and steady. Stephanie helps people build clearer communication, stronger boundaries, and more reliable coping skills.
She invites clients to set the pace and to celebrate progress, however small.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Stephanie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coaching
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Stephanie names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How emotionally focused and attachment work translates online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name feelings that drive relationship patterns and personal distress. It focuses on moments of emotion to shift how people respond to themselves and others, which can help with grief, anxiety, and relationship strain.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early bonds and how they shape current behavior. It helps people see repeated patterns and experiment with different ways of connecting, useful for parenting questions, blended family issues, and attachment concerns.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, client-led pace. The therapist provides steady listening, reflection, and support while clients decide which changes matter most to them.
Choosing an approach is part of therapy. Stephanie works collaboratively to find what fits each person's goals and comfort. Together they try approaches, notice what helps, and adjust the plan as needed rather than following a fixed method.
Online sessions offer flexibility for varied schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face work and role-play, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth situations, and live chat or text messaging support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and practice skills when life is busy.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family concerns, parenting questions, compassion fatigue, and career or life-change issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and practical, combining emotionally focused work with attachment perspectives, cognitive techniques, and mind-body practices like breathing and guided imagery.
What is her clinical background and experience?
She has 15 years of experience and has worked with people facing trauma, loss, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and parenting-related concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LMFT and LPCC credentials and practices in Minnesota.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
In what formats are sessions offered?
Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin work with her?
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