About Stacy
Stacy Gooden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in West Virginia who helps people cope with stress and anxiety. She writes in plain terms and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is straightforward and supportive for people feeling overwhelmed by life changes.
Stacy draws on 18 years of clinical experience to guide conversations and set small goals. She often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors.
Background and approach
She also brings client-centered listening that lets each person set the pace and focus of sessions. Mindfulness techniques are offered to teach simple breathing and attention skills. These tools are presented in short, usable exercises that can be practiced between sessions.
The emphasis is on skills that fit into a busy day rather than long formal practices. She works with concerns such as family and parenting stress, self-esteem, depression, trauma and grief, relationship issues, anger, career stress, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, social anxiety, and adjustment to life events.
Stacy also supports people facing cancer-related stress, blended family challenges, pregnancy and childbirth adjustments, and young adult issues. Sessions are offered in several online formats and are arranged to match a person's schedule. To get started, a client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules times that suit them.
Stacy describes therapy as a collaborative process where small, steady changes add up over time.
How approach choices shape online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the person's lead. The therapist reflects concerns, asks clarifying questions, and helps clients set goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness Therapy offers brief attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, useful for anxiety and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Techniques can be mixed and adjusted over time so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people send notes or updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, school schedule, or caregiving routine while keeping continuity over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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