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Stephanie Speidel, LPC, LMHC, LPCC, CEAP, NCC, CCMHC
Stephanie Speidel, LPC, LMHC, LPCC, CEAP, NCC, CCMHC
Stephanie Speidel, LPC, LMHC, LPCCC, CEAP, NCC, CCMHC
Founder & Clinical Director, Genesis Mental Health, Inc.
Stephanie Speidel is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than a decade of experience helping adults work through anxiety, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, and the kind of stress that builds quietly until it's hard to carry.
Her approach is warm, direct, and practical. She believes therapy works best when it feels like a real conversation, not a clinical exercise. Clients can expect to be heard without judgment, to understand the patterns keeping them stuck, and to leave with tools they can use in everyday life. She works at a pace that feels right for each person, because healing doesn't happen on someone else's timeline.
Stephanie specializes in trauma-informed counseling, anxiety, emotional regulation, and relationships. She is trained in the Gottman Method (Levels I and II) and is committed to in-person, face-to-face therapy.
Forensic and threat assessment work
Alongside her clinical practice, Stephanie has over fifteen years in behavioral threat assessment, including twelve in direct forensic clinical practice. Her work has included violence risk assessment, management of high-risk offenders, and crisis consultation with law enforcement and corporate security. She is the creator of The Threat Read™ and the Zero-Weapon Protocol™, two behavioral frameworks for recognizing and responding to threat, and she trains healthcare, education, law enforcement, and corporate security teams nationally. Her book, You Have to Save Yourself, releases February 2027.
That background shapes her therapy work too. She understands how the mind and body respond to fear and danger, and why those responses can linger long after the threat has passed.
Education
BA, University at Buffalo
MA, Mental Health Counseling, Medaille University
Active Licensure
LPC: VA (#0701007043), PA (#PC016314), OH (C.2608622)
LPCC: NM (#2025-0662)
LCMHC: UT (#13065319-6004), NC (#18492)
LMHC: NY (#005484), FL (#MH28332)
Stephanie's style is direct, warm, and practical. She uses evidence-based approaches, but sessions feel like real conversations, not clinical exercises. She helps clients see the patterns keeping them stuck, understand why those patterns made sense at one point, and build the skills to respond differently now.
She founded Genesis Mental Health to offer therapy that feels human. She doesn't see her job as fixing people. She sees it as helping them understand what's happening in their minds and bodies, so they can stop carrying what no longer serves them and move forward with more clarity and steadiness.
Stephanie specializes in anxiety, trauma, emotional regulation, relationships, and life transitions. Her background in forensic mental health gives her a deep understanding of how fear and stress shape behavior, and why those responses can linger long after the danger has passed.
When she's not in the office, you can usually find Stephanie outside, gathered around a table playing card games, or winding down with a giant mug of tea. She loves diving into psychology and history, though she never gets as much quiet reading time as she'd like.
Most of her joy comes from real-world, face-to-face connection. She's not much for being online, which is ironic given how often she's asked about a YouTube channel dedicated to her comically oversized tea mugs. For now, the mugs stay offline.
Stephanie believes life is built on real, human relationships, and she brings that same warmth, resilience, and presence into the therapy room every day.
Active Licensure:
LPC: VA (#0701007043), PA (#PC016314), OH (#C.2608622)
LPCC: NM (#2025-0662)
LCMHC: UT (#13065319-6004), NC (#18492)
LMHC: NY (#005484), FL (#MH28332)
Trainings & Certifications:
CEAP: Certified Employee Assistance Professional
NCC & CCMHC: Nationally Certified Counselor
ATAP Training: Advanced Threat Assessment
Gottman Method Level 1 & 2 | TRF Studies
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