Stephanie Small is an accomplished Marriage, Family and Child therapist with a positive and empowering approach in her work with children, adolescents, and their families. She builds on the strengths and resilience of her clients while healing the life challenges and traumas that have impeded their sense of wholeness and joy. She is recognized by leading physicians in Los Angeles for her treatment of medical trauma in children and adults. In her private practice of 29 years, she has integrated Attachment-Focused EMDR and somatic therapies to resolve the troubling impact of divorce or separation, grief and loss, attention difficulties, bullying, depression, anxiety, and adoption issues.
In addition to her private practice, Stephanie has lectured locally, nationally, and internationally on childhood and adolescent trauma issues. She recently consulted with state and local officials following the San Bernardino, Valencia, Paris, Sandy Hook, Aurora, Colorado, and Parkland shootings.