About Stacey
Stacey Polson is a Licensed Professional Counselor working in Wyoming with nearly three decades of counseling experience. She brings a straightforward, person-centered way of working that helps people break problems into manageable steps. Her voice is warm and approachable, and she focuses on practical goals clients can use in day-to-day life.
Stacey has a background in developmental psychology and a master’s degree in counseling. Much of her early work was as a middle school counselor, and she later moved into counseling adults in a variety of settings.
Background and approach
That range has shaped a flexible style that fits many life situations. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns such as divorce or intimacy issues. Parenting and family conflict are common topics she addresses, along with career frustration, self-esteem, and coping with major life changes.
Additional focus areas include caregiving stress, chronic illness and disability, body image, and midlife transitions. In sessions she follows a client-centered approach, letting the person guide what feels most important while offering structure and support. Stacey also uses emotionally focused ideas to help people name and respond to feelings, and solution-focused techniques to set short-term, achievable goals.
Her priorities are to listen carefully, help clients spot unhelpful thought patterns, and build steps toward a more balanced outlook. She encourages small, steady changes and works alongside people as they move toward their goals.
How Stacey’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room and follows their priorities. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps the client set the pace and topics for change. This approach fits people who want an empathetic listener and a collaborative process.Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name their core feelings and the patterns that keep them stuck. It can be useful for relationship strain, grief, and issues where emotions feel overwhelming or confusing. Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, practical steps and short-term goals to create visible progress fast.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stacey will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and choose or combine methods that fit. That collaborative planning helps set clear goals and match methods to what the person wants to achieve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people work in ways that fit their schedule. Video helps preserve face-to-face interaction, phone can be lighter on bandwidth, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates and reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, New Jersey
- Languages
- English