Stephanie Mills

Stephanie Mills is an AASW-accredited social worker with seven years of clinical experience in Australia. She helps people who are dealing with relationship strain, family conflict, parenting pressures, and major life changes. Her practice also addresses stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, anger and depression.

Stephanie trained with a focus on family therapy and child psychotherapy studies and holds a Master of Clinical Family Therapy. She uses approaches that centre on emotional bonds and patterns between people to make sense of recurring problems. Sessions tend to focus on what happens between people, how feelings show up, and how that affects day-to-day life.

Her work draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationships shape reactions. Stephanie also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and elements from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and the Gottman Method when these fit the concerns at hand. She helps people try different ways of relating and responding, not just talking about problems.

In practical terms she helps clients improve communication, repair breaches of trust, and manage caregiver stress. She supports people who are coping with separation, infidelity, family of origin issues, abandonment and attachment wounds. Sessions include skill-building for emotional regulation and clearer conversations.

Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Clients are invited to notice patterns, practise new responses, and test changes between sessions. Prospective clients are encouraged to review session options and follow the booking steps to arrange an initial meeting.

How Stephanie uses EFT, ACT and attachment work online