About Dr. McMahon

Dr. Stephanie McMahon is an active, invested, caring therapist who wants to understand, support and encourage you. Dr. McMahon’s therapy style is client-centered, using a blend of Interpersonal and Cognitive Behavioral therapies (CBT), as well as emotion-focused and mindfulness-informed therapies. She believes in using evidence-based therapies that are specific to your present concerns and goals. Altogether, she focuses a strong working therapeutic relationship, with the clients needs, concerns, and growth at the forefront.
Dr. McMahon works with adults who are facing challenges in life. She seeks to create an environment to treat depression and anxiety, including stress and coping, difficulty in relationships, self-esteem and identity concerns. Dr. McMahon specializes in grief and loss, trauma, women’s issues (including miscarriage/ infertility), and relationship concerns. She works with navigating marital distress and divorce.
“I strive to create a safe, confidential environment in which you are not alone in facing your challenges, allowing yourself to grow, learn, and approach your life in a way that feels more whole. Taking steps to be more open to growth is not a weakness, it is a learned strength.”
Stephanie has been working with clients for over 15 years, and has been licensed as a Psychologist since 2007 in Georgia, Alabama, and Virginia. She is currently a Licensed Psychologist in Georgia (PSY003118).
She enjoys the process of growing and challenging herself as a psychotherapist. She maintains active involvement in learning, teaching, and supervising counseling and psychotherapy. She has maintained previous private practices in Virginia and Georgia, and previously worked as the Clinical Director at the Samaritan Center for Counseling and Wellness in Athens, GA. Dr. McMahon has also taught as an Adjunct Professor at Argosy University, the University of South Alabama, and George Mason University with both undergraduate and graduate students.
Dr. McMahon received her BA in Psychology and Hispanic & Italian Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from American University in Washington DC. She enjoys being active, spending time with her loved ones, reading, and being in the present. She is glad to make Athens her home.
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“Evidence-based practice is the integration of the best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.” – American Psychological Association
“What does it mean to be human, and how do we want to live? We explore these questions in their richness and complexity in 21st-century lives and endeavors. We pursue wisdom and moral imagination as much as knowledge; we esteem nuance and poetry as much as fact.” – On Being
Dr. McMahon works with adults who are facing challenges in life. She seeks to create an environment to treat depression and anxiety, including stress and coping, difficulty in relationships, self-esteem and identity concerns. Dr. McMahon specializes in grief and loss, trauma, women’s issues (including miscarriage/ infertility), and relationship concerns. She works with navigating marital distress and divorce.
“I strive to create a safe, confidential environment in which you are not alone in facing your challenges, allowing yourself to grow, learn, and approach your life in a way that feels more whole. Taking steps to be more open to growth is not a weakness, it is a learned strength.”
Stephanie has been working with clients for over 15 years, and has been licensed as a Psychologist since 2007 in Georgia, Alabama, and Virginia. She is currently a Licensed Psychologist in Georgia (PSY003118).
She enjoys the process of growing and challenging herself as a psychotherapist. She maintains active involvement in learning, teaching, and supervising counseling and psychotherapy. She has maintained previous private practices in Virginia and Georgia, and previously worked as the Clinical Director at the Samaritan Center for Counseling and Wellness in Athens, GA. Dr. McMahon has also taught as an Adjunct Professor at Argosy University, the University of South Alabama, and George Mason University with both undergraduate and graduate students.
Dr. McMahon received her BA in Psychology and Hispanic & Italian Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from American University in Washington DC. She enjoys being active, spending time with her loved ones, reading, and being in the present. She is glad to make Athens her home.
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“Evidence-based practice is the integration of the best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.” – American Psychological Association
“What does it mean to be human, and how do we want to live? We explore these questions in their richness and complexity in 21st-century lives and endeavors. We pursue wisdom and moral imagination as much as knowledge; we esteem nuance and poetry as much as fact.” – On Being