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Stefanie Roback,
LCSW, LCAS
Owner and Founder
Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist. Faith-based counseling, couples and premarital counseling, anxiety, and addiction in adults 18 and up.
For people who are holding it together and would rather do the work now than later.
Faith-integrated
Couples and premarital
Anxiety
Addiction and recovery
Self-esteem
Not accepting new clients at this time. Call or text the office at 910-408-2302 and we’ll match you with a therapist who has availability now.
Maybe you’re getting married, or already married, and you want to spend real time on how the two of you handle money, conflict, and expectations. Maybe the anxiety has been quiet and constant for so long that you’ve stopped counting it as a problem. Maybe you’re the one holding things together around someone else’s drinking. And maybe you want a room where your faith is part of the conversation instead of something you have to explain or set aside first.
What those have in common is wanting to get something right: starting it well, changing what isn’t working, or addressing what you’ve carried quietly for years.
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Stefanie Roback is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist, and the founder of Allora Rise Counseling and Therapy. She opened the practice in 2020 to build something warm and easy to reach rather than a clinical last resort, and to give therapists a place where they were supported well enough to do hard work for a long time. She sees adults 18 and up by telehealth throughout North Carolina.
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She works most often with four things.
Faith-based counseling
If you want your faith in the room, it comes into the work rather than sitting outside it. That can mean prayer, or scripture, or just being able to say what you believe without translating it first. This is Stefanie’s deepest area.
Couples and premarital counseling
If you’re getting married, this is the work before the patterns you will live with have set: money, conflict, in-laws, what you each assume the other has agreed to. If you’re already married, it’s the work of changing one of those patterns.
Anxiety
Usually the perfectionism that comes with it, and the social anxiety that turns up in every room. When your worth rests on performing well, the anxiety keeps the performance going and the self-criticism handles anything short of it.
Addiction and recovery
Whether it’s your own drinking or using, or someone else’s and what it has cost you to keep managing around it: the covering, the counting, the version of yourself you become in order to hold the situation steady.
Beyond those four, Stefanie also works with burnout and work-life balance, emotional regulation, life transitions, and identity exploration, and she has particular depth with college students.
Clients describe Stefanie as direct, nonjudgmental, and a good listener.
She holds people accountable and calls them out lovingly when it’s needed, with the aim of helping them see and eventually like themselves.
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Stefanie holds a Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) from Columbia University in New York City. She is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), motivational interviewing, Gottman and emotionally focused couples work, and the SYMBIS premarital assessment. She uses CBT for anxiety and self-esteem, and motivational interviewing for substance use.
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She was named a Wilmington Chamber of Commerce 40 Under 40 recipient in 2024 and one of the WilmingtonBiz 100 Rising Stars in 2025.
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Outside the office, she spends time with her husband and three kids, and you'll find her working out or at the beach.
Your first session
Stefanie welcomes you, introduces herself, and asks whether you have questions before anything starts. Then the intake, which is mostly her learning about you. The measure of a first session for her is simple: you should walk out feeling heard, supported, and seen.
Whether Stefanie is your fit
Stefanie works with adults 18 and up, individually and as couples, and provides clinical supervision. Her practice is built around faith-based counseling, couples and premarital counseling, anxiety, and addiction.
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Stefanie isn’t taking new clients at the moment, so this page is here to say what her work is rather than to book it. If this is what brought you here, email info@allorarise.com or call or text 910-408-2302 and we will tell you which of our therapists we would send you to instead.
PRACTICAL DETAILS
INSURANCE
Aetna
Blue Cross Blue Shield NC
UnitedHealthcare
SELF-PAY
Private pay accepted
Sliding scale available
Superbill provided on request for out-of-network
SEES
Individuals, couples, and clinical supervision
Adults 18 and up
WHERE
Telehealth throughout North Carolina