Exploring Life & Business with Stephanie Grey-Goosman of Care and Counseling Services, LLC

Today we’d like to introduce you to Stephanie Grey-Goosman.

Hi Stephanie, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
My path to becoming a therapist has really been shaped by both my professional experiences and my own mental health journey. After graduating from Georgia State University with a Bachelor’s in Psychology, I spent some time working in a corporate-style environment and then in customer service. While these were valuable experiences, I started to feel a deeper pull toward something more meaningful and human-centered.

My curiosity about people, how we heal, grow, and make sense of ourselves, kept building until I decided to go back to school. I went on to earn my Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Mercer University, which marked the beginning of my work as a therapist.

Since then, I’ve had the honor to work in community mental health, crisis care, inpatient settings, and private practice. Each space showed me something different about what people need when they’re struggling, and also what can get lost when care feels fragmented. Over time, I became especially passionate about creating a different kind of therapeutic space emphasizing autonomy, growth, collaboration, curiosity, and compassion.

Today, I run my own private practice specializing in trauma, OCD, and anxiety, and feel grateful to do work that continues to grow and evolve alongside me.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
No, it definitely hasn’t been a smooth road, but it has absolutely been worth it!

Building a therapy practice while navigating life’s unexpected twists has required a great deal of flexibility, perseverance, tears, mistakes, and trust in the process. One of the biggest challenges along the way was navigating fertility struggles while also focusing on my career. There were seasons filled with uncertainty, shame, self-doubt, and questions about what my future was going to look like. Then, after finally coming to terms with facing the music and seeing things weren’t going to go how I thought they were, I got pregnant!

Becoming a mother has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life. It has deepened my understanding of vulnerability, resilience, identity, and the many ways life unfolds differently than we imagine. Balancing motherhood, business ownership, relationships, and my work as a therapist has definitely been a challenge. There have been moments of exhaustion, depression, self-doubt, and learning to let go of perfectionism.

The struggles, the sparkles, and all the twists and turns along the way have led me here. They’ve reinforced my belief that growth often happens right in the middle of the messiness and uncertainty of life. Every experience has taught me something valuable and has helped shape the person, mother, partner, and therapist I am today and continue to become.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Care and Counseling Services, LLC?
Care and Counseling Services was created from a simple belief that people deserve a space where they can show up exactly as they are and be met with accountability, compassion, and honesty. My practice specializes in working with adults navigating OCD, trauma, anxiety, panic, and the lasting impact of difficult life experiences. Many of the clients I work with are tired of feeling stuck, exhausted by overthinking, or overwhelmed by patterns that no longer serve them, and they’re looking for a path forward that feels both practical and meaningful.

What sets my practice apart is that I don’t believe healing happens through insight alone. Our experiences live not only in our minds, but also in our bodies and nervous systems. I take an integrative approach to therapy, combining evidence-based treatments like Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with Brainspotting and other body-based, trauma-informed approaches. My goal is always to tailor therapy to the human being sitting in front of me rather than forcing someone into a one-size-fits-all approach.

As a Brazilian-American therapist who offers services in both English and Portuguese, I understand the importance of feeling seen, understood, and connected to our cultural identity. I strive to create a space where clients feel safe enough to be authentic, while also being encouraged to take meaningful steps toward their personal evolution.

What I’m most proud of, brand-wise, is that Care and Counseling Services reflects who I am both as a therapist and as a person. The practice is grounded, genuine, and relational. I believe therapy can hold space for tenderness, accountability, and everything in between. We can acknowledge how hard things have been while also recognizing our capacity to grow, heal, take ownership of our parts in things, and choose differently moving forward.

If there’s one thing I’d want readers to know, it’s that healing isn’t about becoming a different person. It’s about connecting with your authentic self, learning to trust yourself again, and creating a life that feels more aligned with who you truly are. Whether someone is struggling with OCD, trauma, anxiety, or a major life transition, they don’t have to figure it all out alone.

What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
The most important lesson I’ve learned is that life is always asking us to adapt. Change is a guarantee and while I don’t always welcome it with open arms, I’ve learned that fighting against reality usually creates more suffering than the change itself.

I’ve also learned the value of meeting myself with compassion, especially in the moments when things haven’t gone as planned. Growth isn’t about becoming a completely different person. It’s about making peace with the parts of your story that shaped you, forgiving yourself for what you didn’t know at the time, and letting go of the beliefs, expectations, and patterns that no longer serve you.

What feels most important to me now is recognizing that this is an ongoing practice. I’m still learning. I still have moments when I get stuck, doubt myself, or struggle to extend the same compassion to myself that I offer others. But I’ve come to see growth less as a destination and more as a lifelong process of returning to myself with curiosity, honesty, and compassion.

Pricing:

• I accept several insurances (see website for comprehensive list)
• $150 per 50 minute individual session

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.careandcounselingservices.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/careandcounselingservicesllc/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Care-And-Counseling-Services-LLC/61570486288474/
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