Stephanie is half Australian, half English, born in New York, raised in Switzerland. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and the Centre for Counseling and Psychotherapy Education in London, and practiced psychotherapy in London for 15 years before moving to Charlottesville in 2007. She is fluent in French and Italian and speaks enough Spanish and German to get by in a pinch! She has a 23-year-old daughter living in New York, and an 11-year-old son living in Charlottesville, as well as two dogs (Yogi and Eigg), three cats (Beep, Elizabeth and Kat) and a number of interesting fish. Stephanie is currently completing her 500-hour yoga teaching training with Dharma Mittra. She is certified in First Aid, Adult/Child/Infant CPR and AED and as a yoga instructor with Yoga Alliance at the 200 hour level, having completed a 300-hour training with the Yoga Studies Institute in Arizona.