About Stacy
Stacy Freeland is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression. She centers the work on each person’s strengths and their lived experience. Stacy approaches clients with respect and patience as they take steps toward change.
She emphasizes a collaborative style where the person’s goals guide the work. Sessions are practical and aimed at small, doable steps. Stacy encourages people to notice what matters to them and build on what already works in their life.
Background and approach
Stacy draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment work, cognitive-behavioral skills, and mindfulness exercises. These methods are used to address daily symptoms, coping skills, and patterns that get in the way of goals. Motivational interviewing and client-centered techniques help people explore their values and find motivation to change.
With four years of experience, Stacy has worked with people facing a wide range of concerns, including relationship issues, grief, self-esteem, ADHD, and career stress. She also supports those dealing with chronic health challenges, caregiver stress, and separation or divorce. Her style is straightforward and supportive, with an emphasis on real-world strategies.
Stacy invites people to take the first step when they feel ready. She helps set clear, manageable goals and checks progress along the way. The focus is on steady, sustainable change that fits each person’s life.
How Stacy's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and commitment work helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors with practical exercises to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Stacy will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative planning includes trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth sessions. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates, skill practice between sessions, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Stacy address?
How would you describe Stacy's therapy style?
What experience does Stacy have?
What are Stacy's credentials and where is she located?
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?
What session formats are available?
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
How do I begin therapy with Stacy?
What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English