About Tracie
Tracie Gillispie is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oklahoma with 23 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. Tracie writes and talks in straightforward ways so families and parents can understand next steps.
Her approach centers on helping people name what matters to them and build skills to cope better day to day. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to change unhelpful patterns and manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and dialectical behavior ideas are woven into sessions when they fit the client's needs. Tracie also pays attention to attachment and family-related concerns like abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and caregiver stress. She helps people address eating and body image struggles, intimacy-related problems, and life transitions with steady, practical guidance.
Sessions emphasize concrete tools along with a respectful, nonjudgmental tone. Therapy can involve short skill-building practices, changes to unhelpful thoughts, and rehearsal of communication strategies. Tracie treats symptoms such as sleep problems, appetite and eating issues, and mood instability by breaking concerns down into manageable steps.
She works collaboratively to set goals and monitor progress. People who choose her often want a therapist who listens, offers clear options, and helps them take realistic actions. Tracie supports clients as they try new ways of coping and adjust plans when needed.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, sleep, eating concerns, and mood symptoms. Attachment-Based Therapy attends to how early relationships affect current connections and can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and blended family dynamics.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Techniques can be adjusted over time as progress is tracked and new priorities emerge.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let therapists and clients interact face to face for skill coaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between sessions and allow for tracking thoughts or practicing skills in the moment. These options help people access counseling from different places and fit therapy into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English