Steffani Roller, LPC, IEDS
Steffani Roller is the Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Empowered Treatment, and the clinical reviewer for its education library. Every educational guide and situation answer on this site passes through her review before publication.
Meet the clinician behind the review
Steffani Roller is the Co-Founder and Clinical Director at Empowered. With more than 10 years of experience in behavioral health, her background includes work in substance use treatment centers, counseling support within a psychiatric clinic, and private practice. These experiences have allowed her to support individuals navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, eating disorders, relationship challenges, and major life transitions.
Steffani believes eating disorders often emerge as responses to pain, overwhelm, disconnection, and unmet needs. Core to her treatment philosophy is helping clients understand the function or protective role their eating disorder has been trying to serve. She supports clients in reestablishing a sense of safety, strengthening emotional regulation skills, and challenging the rules and core beliefs that keep people feeling stuck or hopeless. Her approach is collaborative and grounded in the belief that clients are the experts of their own histories and experiences. Steffani's role is to support, guide, and compassionately challenge clients on their recovery journey while helping them reconnect with their authentic selves. She holds deep respect for the courage it takes to be vulnerable in therapy and to show up for recovery, especially in the IOP setting. With that in mind, she is committed to creating a space where people feel seen, understood, and empowered to rebuild trust in themselves and to envision and claim a life beyond their eating disorder.
In her free time, Steffani enjoys yoga, walking the trails with friends, the occasional throwback emo playlist, and spending time with her family and pit bull dog crew.
What the letters mean
- LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor): a state-licensed mental health clinician qualified to assess, diagnose, and treat mental health conditions through psychotherapy. Licensure requires a graduate degree in counseling, thousands of supervised clinical hours, and passing state board examination, with continuing education to maintain.
- IEDS (Integrative Eating Disorder Specialist): an advanced specialty credential reflecting focused training and supervised experience specifically in eating disorder treatment, beyond general mental health licensure.
What clinical review actually checks
Reviewing health content isn't proofreading. Before an Empowered education page is published, clinical review confirms that:
- Clinical claims are accurate and consistent with current evidence and practice guidelines, including the American Psychiatric Association's eating disorder guideline
- Cited sources are legitimate, current, and fairly represented
- Language is safe for readers in recovery: weight-inclusive, free of numbers and behavior detail that could function as instruction
- Nuance survives: hedged claims stay hedged, and uncertainty in the research is acknowledged rather than smoothed over
- Crisis guidance appears wherever the subject calls for it
Pages carry their review date, and are re-reviewed as evidence evolves. The process itself is described on our authors page.
A note on what this is and isn't
Clinical review makes educational content trustworthy. It does not make it medical advice. Nothing on this website, reviewed or otherwise, replaces an individual assessment by qualified professionals who know your history. If you're weighing decisions about eating disorder care, talk with us or your own providers, and in a medical or psychiatric emergency, call 911 or the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Questions about our clinical review process are always welcome at (512) 882-4599.
Reviewed with care. Delivered with more.
The standards on this page are the same ones we bring to treatment. Come see for yourself.