Stacie Story, LPC

Stacie Story is a licensed professional counselor with thirty years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or major life changes. She focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier and more in control. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at everyday problems like family tensions, parenting strain, and low self-esteem.

Stacie uses straightforward conversations to help people sort priorities and set small goals they can actually follow. She often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, along with client-centered and solution-focused methods, to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. She also uses skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when strong emotions need clearer coping tools.

Clients can expect calm, regular check-ins that emphasize clear communication and realistic next steps. Stacie pays attention to caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, and the strain that comes from caregiving roles. She also works with people facing postpartum depression, isolation, and questions about life purpose and meaning.

Her experience includes assisting people with relationship and intimacy-related issues, addiction concerns, bipolar and depressive mood struggles, and recovery from trauma and abuse. Stacie supports those coping with anger, career decisions, and transitions like retirement or major role changes.

Sessions aim to build skills for everyday life, reduce overwhelm, and strengthen self-compassion. Stacie frames therapy as a collaborative effort that helps people take manageable steps toward clearer goals.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Stacie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build practical coping skills. CBT focuses on identifying thinking patterns that feed anxiety or low mood and testing new behaviors to see what helps. Client-centered work emphasizes understanding a person's perspective and building a collaborative, respectful working relationship.

She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy when managing strong emotions or intense interpersonal stress. DBT supplies concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can be practiced between sessions and reviewed together.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Stacie works with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice is made together and can adapt as progress unfolds.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping a steady rhythm of support.