About
Hi, I’m Stephanie.
A Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Colorado. In this work since 2008, licensed since 2018. Adjunct faculty in BSW and MSW programs. Director of Clinical Services for an early-stage wellness company.
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Colorado, and I’ve been doing this work in some form since 2008, when I started out as a direct care worker in a residential treatment setting for at-risk youth. The license came in 2018, though the clinical instincts had been with me a long time before that.
In the years since, my work has stretched across child welfare, hospital social work, and behavioral health quality improvement leadership in long-term care. These days I serve as Director of Clinical Services for an early-stage wellness company, teach as adjunct faculty in BSW and MSW programs, and present to state and national long-term care associations on substance use, behavioral health F-tags, and mental health basics for frontline staff. It’s a lot of different rooms, but the through line has always been the same: people deserve thoughtful care from someone who actually understands what they’re walking through.
A lot of what I’m proudest of has come through psychosocial assessment work. I’ve written reports that helped someone receive asylum, helped a family move forward with an adoption, and reports that led to outcomes nobody wanted. Every one of them mattered. Every one of them got my full attention.
What I believe
Four things I will not budge on.
01 · Trauma-informed care
Trauma-informed care has to mean something concrete in the room, or it is just a phrase on a poster.
02 · Cultural affirmation
Cultural affirmation is the floor of this work, not a feature you add on top.
03 · The “difficult” client
Most of the people the system labels “difficult” are being failed by people who are too stretched to do better. They deserve someone with the time and training to see them clearly.
04 · Whole-person clinical work
Good clinical work pays attention to the whole person, including the systems shaping the room they walked into.
What I’m working on now
The Social Work Progressive is where all of this comes together. Independent assessments. Continuing education for clinicians. Toolkits for the working clinician. Consultation for agencies that want their behavioral health practice to genuinely shift. New courses are launching throughout 2026, and I’d love for you to be part of it.
A little about me outside the work
I’m a parent, and raising a neurodivergent kid has shaped a lot of how I think about responsive caregiving and about advocating for people inside systems that weren’t built with them in mind. I live in Colorado. The things I care about outside the office show up in how I do this work, and the through line is always the dignity of the person sitting across from me.
In the news
Scary Mommy, October 2026. I was interviewed for “Fine But Not OK”: The Low-Grade Dread of Having No Wiggle Room Financially, a piece on the stress of living without a financial margin, the most common money story I hear in practice. The article also points readers to The Group Guide for peer support by topic and state. Read the article
If any of this resonates.
I’d love to hear from you.