A human-informed approach to depth, repair, and becoming whole.

Stephanie's career has unfolded alongside people navigating addiction, trauma, loss, and the long work of coming back to themselves. From community substance use services to private clinical practice, from university classrooms to research partnerships, she has held two things at once: real clinical structure and genuine room for the parts of a life that resist measurement.

Her philosophy is grounded in the belief that healing is rarely a single breakthrough. It is repeated contact, held safely, over time. It happens in the relationship between what is clinical and what is transformative, what can be named and what must first be witnessed.

She writes and teaches on trauma-informed practice, grief, resilience, and non-ordinary states of consciousness, always with an eye toward what is humane, what is honest, and what actually helps people live better lives.