Team Bilbrey
If you decide to employ from here, avoid Stephanie Harris. The entire experience was very frustrating. If you want a counselor who listens to you, gives you objective feedback on reality of circumstance, and holds your privacy with strictness as any counselor or therapist should, then steer clear. During my session, I narrated my situation and she wouldn’t stop talking about herself. I wasn’t sure if I was paying for my therapy or paying to get to know her and her personal life. I get that she was trying to be relatable, but it became unbearable that she always talked about herself after each moment I relay. Secondly, during my session, I kept hearing people talking in the background. I am quite certain that during this time, she wasn’t in a private setting, and had friends or people within earshot. I am a very private person, and hearing all the commotion in the background just really made me feel unsafe of the intimate details she and I talked about, especially since Stephanie’s voice is quite loud. I honestly didn't feel secure that my information I’ve shared in conversations with her only stayed with her, and I’m pretty sure the setting she was in and conducted our session is a violation of client privacy. I wanted to ask her to lower her volume during our conversation as she sounded like she was yelling, but I didn’t want to offend her. That’s another thing, her feedback always appealed to emotion and always seemed to justify my feelings, even though I know objectively some of my feelings were disruptive and non conducive to my progress. Yet, she tried to comfort me by justifying my feelings, like a friend would. Except, I don’t need a friend or a life cheerleader, I need a counselor to help me progress not to stay stagnant. The tone of her voice whenever she responded, always sounded very emotionally driven, that it gave me the impression that as a person, she is the type to act out of emotion as oppose to calm logic, like a typical Karen. So I felt censored in speaking my mind, not to mention she wouldn’t stop talking anyway during our session. Also, the tone of her response always loomed over sense of narcissistic perspective and entitlement, again, like a Karen. Her approach was more on what was wrong with others versus what could be wrong with my translation of situations. This was exactly the type of mindset I wanted to avoid in my situation, but her feedback just reinforced this mentality. Just a heads up for Spanish speakers, she isn’t necessarily fluent in speaking, so there’s a lag in her response. That in itself was also frustrating since there was fragmentation in conversation. summary pros: cost effective cons: seeming breach of client’s privacy/information, overly talkative, tone deaf feedback Terrible experience. I would not recommend.