Stephanie Oyler, MSW, LSW, CT
Co-Founder, Lead Therapist, Practice Director | (she/her)
You’ve lived with questions that don’t have easy answers. You may have grown up between families, between cultures, or within systems that didn’t protect you. Maybe your story includes adoption, foster care, early trauma, or a search for identity that’s still unfolding. You deserve a place for all of it—without needing to explain why. Let's create it together.
Working with me, at a Glance
Specialty Issues
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Grief and loss
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Complex and developmental trauma
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Childhood institutionalization trauma​​
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Racial/transracial/multiracial identity
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Racial trauma
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Parent-child relationships
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Transracial & Adoptive identity
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Adoption-related grief, loss, & trauma
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Adoption search and reunion
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Adoptive parenting through complexity
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Disclosures and secrets (adoptive, foster, and donor conception)
Practical Details
Availability: Limited
Insurance: In-network with Aetna. Pending with BCBS and Cigna.
Session Locations:
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In-person: Parkesburg, PA
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Virtual: PA​​
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Coaching: virtual nationwide
Services
Specialty: Complex, Developmental, & Racial Trauma
You don’t have to be part of the child welfare system to know the ache of early loss, the pressure to perform for love, or the impact of being unseen. Many people I work with carry the weight of trauma woven into their earliest relationships—whether through emotional neglect, institutionalization, overdiagnosis, or rigid family systems. You may be navigating identity, trust, or the long work of reparenting yourself. You may want to break generational cycles, reconnect with your body, or just figure out how to feel more like you. We’ll work at the pace of safety, not urgency. You bring your story. I’ll bring the care. We’ll meet somewhere in the middle.
Specialty: Post-Adoption Support
If your life has been impacted by adoption or foster care, you may carry questions about where you come from, who you are, or why things happened the way they did. You might feel split between families, identities, or versions of yourself that were shaped by survival. Whether you're an adoptee, a birth parent, or part of an adoptive family, this work can bring up grief, anger, guilt, confusion, or longing—sometimes all at once. You may be in search of a person, a truth, or simply a place where your story is safe to unfold. Here, we slow down, listen closely, and make space for the complexity. There’s no right way to feel. Only your way.
My Education
2018 | Bachelor of Social Work, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
2020| Master of Clinical Social Work, Rutgers University
Credentials & Formal Training
Licensed Master Social Worker (PA) Certified - Thanatologist Certified - Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) level 1 Certified - ACT 101 Provider Certified - Child Welfare Direct Practice Worker Trained - EMDR Basic, Â EMDR Advanced for Complex Trauma & EMDR for Children Trained - Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Trained - Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)Â Trained - Integrative Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Trained - Motivational Interviewing