About Lacey
Lacey Farrow is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 15 years of practice. She focuses on anxiety and related concerns and aims to help people regain confidence and move forward. Her manner is practical and direct, with tools that clients can use between sessions.
Lacey often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also draws on mindfulness techniques and trauma-focused strategies for people managing complex stress or past harm.
Background and approach
Sessions include worksheets and practical exercises to reinforce progress. Her experience covers a wide range of struggles, including depression, sleep problems, addictions, grief, anger, and coping with life changes. She has worked with issues such as hoarding, first responder stress, and concerns linked to aging and possible neurocognitive decline.
Lacey supports people dealing with mood disorders, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and relationship or commitment difficulties. Her approach mixes skill teaching with compassionate listening. She helps clients set clear goals and practice small, manageable steps between sessions.
She emphasizes that clients are the experts on their lives and builds on their strengths. For people new to therapy, Lacey encourages taking a single step forward by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling an initial appointment. She works with a variety of session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
How her approaches work in online therapy
CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. Online sessions can use worksheets and short exercises to practice skills and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to help manage stress and improve sleep. These practices translate well to video or phone visits where the therapist can guide practices in real time.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that fit the person's needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to choose strategies that feel useful and manageable.
Online therapy with Lacey is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video suits deeper conversation and guided exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins or on-the-go support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other obligations while keeping a consistent course of care.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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