About Stacie
Stacie Brethauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Pennsylvania. She brings 13 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship concerns. Stacie focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable.
Stacie uses an individualized approach that centers the person's goals. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at connection patterns, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and actions, and mindfulness to increase present-moment awareness.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and usable between meetings. Her work includes support for people facing grief, major life changes, parenting strain, career pressures, compassion fatigue, and addiction-related concerns. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment questions, blended family dynamics, and body image struggles.
Stacie helps people clarify values and set realistic goals. In sessions she focuses on listening and helping clients choose simple coping strategies. Conversations tend to identify patterns, try practical experiments, and build skills that can be practiced day to day.
She keeps tools concrete so they fit into busy lives. If someone is exploring ADHD, LGBT-related stress, trauma and abuse, or fertility and fatherhood issues, Stacie brings attention to how these concerns affect emotions and relationships. Her aim is to support steady progress rather than quick fixes.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions. Stacie offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to adapt to different needs and rhythms.
Approach and online session options that fit your life
Stacie commonly uses attachment-based work to look at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior, helping people notice patterns that affect trust and connection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and is used to change habits that maintain anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness techniques help people slow down, notice the moment, and reduce reactivity to stressors. She views choosing an approach as a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk about goals, try a few methods, and decide together what feels most useful. That way treatment reflects the client's needs and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all method. Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, parenting, or other commitments. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, ongoing support between sessions, or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into a busy life.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English