About Stacey
Stacey Zimmerman is a licensed clinical social worker who uses attachment-focused and evidence-informed ways to help people manage stress and anxiety. She draws on practical methods to address mood, relationship struggles, and changes that feel overwhelming. Stacey keeps sessions straightforward and grounded so people can make steady progress.
Stacey blends work on past experiences with present-day patterns. She looks for the rooted causes of how someone responds to stress and relationships.
Background and approach
From there she uses simple strategies to ease symptoms and build new habits of coping. Her background includes six years practicing as a licensed clinical social worker and many years of service in the U.S. Army across active duty, reserves, and the National Guard.
That experience exposed her to a wide range of life stages and settings, from community mental health and juvenile detention to geriatric wellness and therapeutic foster care. In sessions she aims for an authentic connection where people feel comfortable speaking honestly.
Stacey favors an approach that invites clients to experiment with new ways of thinking and acting rather than handing out direct advice. She balances sensitivity with clear direction when growth requires it. Stacey works with common concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, parenting stress, ADHD, eating and sleeping difficulties, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
She offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging formats and conducts work in English from Florida.
Approach-driven online therapy for attachment and anxiety
Stacey uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that matter to them. ACT focuses on values and small committed steps to reduce the impact of anxiety and avoidance. Attachment-Based Therapy is also a core part of her work and looks at how early relationships shape current reactions to stress and intimacy; this can help people understand why they cling, withdraw, or feel unsafe in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Stacey will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort. She often blends approaches and adjusts the plan based on what helps in early sessions so the work feels useful and doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth discussion and skill practice, phone can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth, live chat works for faster exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing prompts or brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and busy days while still focusing on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Utah, Florida
- Languages
- English
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