About Tracey
Tracey Byram is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma, and addiction. She also supports concerns like parenting strain, grief, intimacy issues, ADHD, and body image. Her approach is straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use right away.
She listens first and then builds goals with each person. Sessions are based on what the client needs and moves at a comfortable pace.
Background and approach
Tracey uses talk therapy and structured tools to teach coping skills and improve daily routines. Her work draws from therapies that focus on thoughts, feelings, and close relationships. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with workable strategies.
Attachment-based ideas help people understand patterns that began in earlier relationships and how those patterns affect current connections. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients accept difficult feelings while choosing actions that match their values. Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques offer concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication.
Tracey brings 27 years of counseling experience in Georgia and works to create a calm, steady environment. She has experience supporting LGBT concerns and has used animal-assisted work in the past. Outside of counseling she enjoys reading, hiking, home projects, and time by the beach.
Using practical therapies in online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches specific exercises to reduce unhelpful thinking and change routine behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and sleep or eating challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication during heated moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. Sessions can blend ACT, CBT, DBT, and attachment ideas as needed, with adjustments made over time based on what helps.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works well for short check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity when travel or work makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English