Stefanya Bukasa, a licensed professional counselor associate and LCDC, welcomes you to embark on a journey toward your best and healthiest self. Her goal is to create a safe space where clients can freely explore challenging feelings, thoughts, stressors, and triggers, ultimately enabling them to embrace the life they deserve. Each session in her office becomes your room, with Stefanya as the supportive visitor. She believes in adopting a holistic wellness approach to therapy, which personalizes each client's experience. Stefanya strives to build an authentic therapeutic rapport, allowing both herself and her clients to be genuine. With extensive experience addressing women's issues, addiction, co-occurring disorders, depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, self-harming behaviors, domestic violence, trauma, and PTSD, she has primarily worked in inpatient and partial inpatient facilities, later exploring outpatient services. Recognizing you as the expert of your own life, Stefanya is eager to partner with clients in identifying and achieving the goals that led them to seek therapy. She emphasizes the importance of consistent effort, whether on challenging days or easier ones, making sure that goals remain achievable and realistic, while breaking down any stigma surrounding mental health and therapy.