Stephanie Mills, AASW

AASW social worker with seven years' experience, Stephanie Mills helps people navigate relationship and family struggles. She works with individuals and couples on issues like communication breakdown, separation, parenting strain and the fallout from betrayal or loss. Sessions focus on practical steps to improve interactions and manage strong emotions.

Stephanie completed a Graduate Diploma in Child Psychotherapy Studies and a Master of Clinical Family Therapy. She draws on a blend of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) and the Gottman Method. These inform how she structures sessions and sets goals with clients.

In conversation she helps people identify patterns that keep problems repeating. That can mean mapping family roles, noticing attachment reactions, or learning skills to manage anxiety and anger. When trauma or grief are involved she takes a paced approach and works from the person’s current capacity.

Practical concerns such as parenting stress, caregiver burden and communication breakdown are addressed with concrete strategies. She also supports people dealing with addiction, depression and post-traumatic stress by combining skills training with relational work.

Stephanie uses a collaborative style. She explains options, tests what helps, and adjusts the plan as therapy progresses. People who want clear steps and attention to relationship patterns tend to find this approach useful.

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