About Stacy
Stacy Jo Poffenbarger is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with anxiety, stress, grief, addiction, and life changes. Her manner is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people take the first step toward a more manageable life.
She listens first and then works together with each person to shape practical next steps. Conversations are aimed at building motivation, improving self-esteem, and strengthening coping skills.
Background and approach
Stacy tailors sessions to the specific needs and goals a person brings to therapy. Her background includes long-term work with people who face chronic stress, caregiving strain, and substance use concerns. She also offers support to those dealing with loss, relationship struggles, and challenges tied to attention differences and mood instability.
Her experience covers both individual struggles and the effects those struggles can have on loved ones. Stacy uses approaches that emphasize skills and direct practice. She draws on methods that help people change thinking patterns, manage intense emotions, and process difficult memories.
Progress is tracked through concrete goals and regular review of what is and isn’t working. She aims to treat everyone with sensitivity and respect. If someone wants a steady, practical path forward through anxiety, stress, grief, or addictive behaviors, Stacy offers steady guidance and a plan that fits their life.
How therapy approaches fit into online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying out new behaviors. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, and problems that come from stuck thinking. DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication skills. It can help with intense emotions, anger, and relationship struggles. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a method for processing distressing memories so they have less emotional charge during daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Stacy will talk with each person about their goals, what has and hasn't helped before, and which methods feel like the best match. That decision is made together and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls are good for a full therapy session, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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