About Stacie
Stacie Brethauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who brings 13 years of experience to therapy. She focuses on practical, straightforward support for people dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship struggles, and life transitions. Stacie aims to make coping strategies easy to use in everyday life so progress feels manageable and real.
Her style is warm and encouraging, with an emphasis on listening first and tailoring approaches to each person.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters most to the client - the problems they want to solve and the small changes that add up. She draws from proven methods to create plans that fit individual needs. Stacie works with concerns that include trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, parenting challenges, career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and self-esteem.
She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, communication problems, divorce and separation, and family of origin struggles. Her clinical approaches include Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Mindfulness Therapy.
Stacie combines these methods to help people build new habits, understand patterns, and shift difficult feelings into healthier responses. Based in Pennsylvania, she offers sessions in English using a variety of online formats. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections influence current relationships and emotional habits. Online sessions using this approach help people notice patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of relating when trust or connection feels shaky.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions, CBT can include brief exercises, thought records, and homework that fit into daily life to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's goals and perspective. The therapist listens closely and mirrors what is said so the client feels heard and can discover their own solutions. This approach pairs well with other methods to make therapy feel collaborative and respectful.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they try approaches, adjust as needed, and choose methods that match the client's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short updates, brief exercises, or when someone prefers writing. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit around work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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