About Tracie
Tracie Diamond is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nine years of clinical experience. She helps adults facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, trauma, and related concerns. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at practical progress rather than jargon.
She draws on methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness to address symptoms and daily struggles. Sessions focus on clear skills for managing emotions, changing unhelpful thoughts, and building routines that support recovery and wellbeing.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing and client-centered work guide goal setting and steady change. Tracie has worked in a variety of settings across multiple states, and she brings that varied experience to sessions in Iowa. She listens first, then helps people make step-by-step plans that fit their lives.
The tone in sessions is respectful and nonjudgmental. Common topics she supports include relationship strain, parenting stress, substance use and recovery, coping with life changes, ADHD, grief, body image, chronic illness, and work-related burnout. She also addresses communication problems, codependency, hoarding concerns, and anger management with concrete strategies.
Clients can expect collaborative planning, regular check-ins on progress, and tools they can use between sessions. Tracie emphasizes practical skills alongside emotional understanding so people can build stability and move forward.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered work focuses on building a trusting relationship and tailoring sessions to a person's pace and goals. It helps people feel heard and guides practical next steps for everyday problems.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It gives clear tools for changing unhelpful thinking and for lowering anxiety, improving sleep, and easing mood problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. These skills are useful for managing overwhelming feelings, reducing impulsive actions, and improving relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This is a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth work and visual cues. Phone can work well when bandwidth is limited or when a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, flexible exchanges during busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, or changing schedules while using the same therapeutic approaches described above.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Iowa
- Languages
- English