Stacy Braiuca, LCSW, LSCSW

Stacy Braiuca is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of practice in Missouri. She holds LCSW and LSCSW credentials and brings long experience to conversations about worry, low mood, and hard life changes. Stacy aims to make therapy straightforward and usable for busy people.

She favors clear, practical work in sessions. Stacy listens closely, then helps identify small, doable steps people can try between meetings. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to notice unhelpful thoughts and build different habits, alongside client-centered and mindfulness approaches to strengthen self-awareness.

Sessions often focus on problems like anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. Stacy also helps people dealing with substance issues, compassion fatigue, sleep disruption, and the strain of caregiving or chronic illness. She is experienced with concerns related to sexual diversity, BDSM and kink culture, gender dysphoria, and intimacy-related questions.

Her way of working is collaborative. She asks what matters most, sets goals together, and adjusts the plan as needs shift. Hypnotherapy and motivational interviewing are additional tools she may use to support behavior change and clarify values.

People who prefer direct, practical strategies alongside understanding and respect tend to fit her style. Stacy offers various session formats and works with clients to find which method helps them make steady progress.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Stacy often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking that increase worry or low mood and to practice different responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and many everyday struggles. She also draws on client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening, respect, and helping people clarify their own goals and values.

Hypnotherapy is another tool she may offer to support behavior change and reduce distress when appropriate; it can be paired with other methods to reinforce new habits. Stacy treats the choice of approach as a conversation - she works together with clients to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and comfort level, and adjusts plans as progress is made.

Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for in-depth talks and working through exercises, phone can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat work well for brief check-ins or when writing thoughts feels easier. These options aim to make it simpler to get consistent support on a schedule that fits everyday life.