About Stacey
Stacey Gooden offers calm, steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, or major life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely so a person can make sense of what feels tangled. Stacey aims to create space for small steps that lead to clearer thinking and more manageable days.
Stacey is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and she draws on about 15 years of clinical experience in Texas. She uses practical tools such as cognitive strategies and relaxation techniques to reduce worry and overwhelm.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what feels most urgent and on building skills that can be used between visits. She also integrates approaches that attend to deeper emotional patterns and past hurts, including work with parts-based perspectives and trauma-focused methods. That lets people address painful memories alongside daily coping skills.
Stacey pays attention to feelings like abandonment, guilt, shame, and isolation while helping clients notice how those feelings shape their choices. In sessions she helps people facing social anxiety, post-traumatic stress reactions, or ongoing low mood. Conversations tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented, with room for gentle processing when needed.
Stacey supports people as they test new ways of behaving and practice small experiments in everyday life. People begin by identifying a few clear goals and then tracking progress over time. The focus is on steady movement toward more ease and agency, rather than quick fixes.
Stacey welcomes questions and frames each step as part of a collaborative process.
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Stacey uses a mix of cognitive strategies and relaxation techniques that teach practical ways to reduce worry and calm the body. These approaches focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and adding short exercises people can use between sessions to ease anxiety and low mood.She also uses parts-based perspectives that help people understand different internal voices or parts that drive behavior. That work helps when strong emotions like abandonment, guilt, or shame feel overwhelming and repeated patterns keep showing up.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, the urgency of symptoms, and personal preferences. Together they try techniques, notice what helps, and adjust the plan over time to fit the client’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for deeper processing and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, progress notes, or continued support between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English