Stephanie Dugdale

Older youth, adults, and couples navigating some of life’s harder terrain are who Stephanie Dugdale built her practice around. Whether someone is carrying the weight of anxiety, depression, or the long reach of childhood trauma — or a couple is sitting across from each other unsure how to find their way back — Stephanie meets people where they are. Her work also extends to those living with chronic illness, struggling with eating disorders, or moving through major life transitions, including the particular exhaustion that comes when a teenager is holding together school, relationships, and the constant noise of social media all at once.

Stephanie practices as a Canadian Certified Counsellor in Ottawa, Ontario, offering sessions online. Alongside her private practice, she provides clinical supervision to graduate counselling students, an investment in the profession that shapes how she thinks about rigorous, ethical care. Her approach draws on emotionally focused therapy (EFT), trauma-informed modalities, body-focused work, attachment theory, object relations, and experiential therapies. She is currently deepening this foundation through ongoing training in Somatic Experiencing.

Rather than applying a fixed method, Stephanie works from an integrated framework — one she adapts to the specific person or couple in front of her, because what someone needs from therapy is rarely one-size-fits-all.