About Stacey
Stacey Tenbrink offers supportive, down-to-earth care for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or addiction. She is Stacey Tenbrink, a licensed mental health counselor who practices in Rhode Island. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping people find clearer footing during hard times.
She focuses on practical skills like communication, self-worth, and coping with life changes. Stacey listens to each person's story and helps them spot patterns that cause distress.
Background and approach
Together clients build small, doable strategies for day-to-day relief and longer term change. With five years of clinical experience and credentials as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor, Stacey blends methods that have research support. She draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment strategies, and humanistic talk to shape sessions around a person’s needs.
That mix helps address symptoms like mood changes, anxiety, and addictive behaviors. Stacey also gives attention to issues often tied to emotional pain, such as attachment wounds, codependency, body image, and difficulties after separation or trauma. She helps people notice unhelpful habits and practice different responses in everyday life.
Her sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual. People leave with clearer tools for coping, improved communication skills, and steps toward building more satisfying routines and relationships.
Evidence-informed approaches and online care
Stacey uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. This approach is practical and focuses on changing patterns that keep problems like anxiety and low mood going.She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, which help people clarify their values and make small changes that align with what matters most. That approach supports coping with painful feelings without getting stuck in them.
Finding the right way to work is a team effort. Stacey collaborates with each person to pick and adjust approaches based on symptoms, goals, and what feels doable in daily life. She checks in and changes course when something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are useful. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflection between sessions or quick check-ins during busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island, South Carolina
- Languages
- English