About Stacey
Stacey Brown is a licensed professional counselor with 16 years of experience who takes a client-centered approach to therapy. She focuses on practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and the emotional fallout of trauma and abuse. Sessions are paced to match each person's needs and goals.
Stacey uses clear, hands-on methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and build daily coping skills.
Background and approach
She keeps language simple and focuses on tools people can use between sessions. The work often includes learning ways to manage strong emotions, reduce avoidance, and improve communication. Her background includes many years helping people through life changes such as divorce and separation, loss, and recovery from substance use concerns.
She also helps with issues tied to abandonment, codependency, dissociation, and persistent mood or personality challenges. The aim is to make progress that feels relevant to everyday life. Stacey listens for the story behind symptoms like panic, low mood, social anxiety, self-harm urges, and isolation.
She helps people sort out guilt, shame, and trouble with trusting others so they can rebuild self-compassion and healthier boundaries. Work is collaborative and paced to each person's readiness. Practically, sessions happen by video, phone, chat, or text messaging, letting people choose what fits their schedule.
Stacey is based in South Carolina and conducts therapy in English.
How Stacey’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and tailoring the work to each person's goals. It helps when someone needs empathy, validation, and support while figuring out what changes feel right for them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers straightforward exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety and low mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships. It is useful for strong emotions, self-harm urges, and trouble managing interpersonal conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person's needs, goals, and comfort level. Over time the plan can be adjusted based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy lives or limited transportation. Video calls let sessions feel close to an in-person experience, while phone sessions use less data and can be easier when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick skill coaching, or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to keep progress moving consistently.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English