About Stacey
Stacey Sugar uses an attachment-informed, client-centered approach to help people untangle painful patterns and find steadier ground. She blends practical tools with reflective work so people can make clearer choices about relationships, identity, and life direction. Stacey holds MD, LCPC, and LPCC credentials and brings 14 years of clinical experience to her practice.
She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction. Relationship and intimacy struggles are a common focus, including commitment worries, communication problems, and issues tied to family of origin.
Background and approach
Stacey also supports people facing shame, codependency, body image concerns, and isolation. In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills. Attachment-Based and Client-Centered methods create room to examine how early patterns shape current relationships.
She also integrates existential questions about meaning and hypnotherapy when those tools fit a person’s needs. Stacey frames therapy as a collaborative process. She listens for the small patterns that repeat in a person’s life and helps make those patterns visible.
Then she works with each person to try new responses and strengthen what already works. People who reach out can expect a calm, straightforward style. Stacey encourages testing changes slowly and learning from each step.
Her aim is to help people edit their life stories with more awareness and clearer intention.
How attachment and practical therapies work online
Stacey uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds influence current relationships and emotional reactions; this helps when patterns like fear of abandonment or repeated conflict keep showing up. Client-Centered Therapy gives space for each person to be heard and respected, and it supports building self-understanding and agency. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors so people get relief from anxiety and depression symptoms.Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Stacey treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help figure out which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. Together they set clear aims, try techniques, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online formats make regular sessions easier to maintain. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging support brief updates, coaching between sessions, and flexible communication during busy days. These options aim to make therapy accessible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, California
- Languages
- English