About Tracy
Tracy Flug is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California with 23 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults and seniors who are facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and complex health-related concerns. Tracy aims to create a space where people feel heard and can begin to put themselves first.
She frames therapy as a team effort. Tracy uses straightforward methods to help people manage distress and rebuild routines after loss, illness, or trauma.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize practical steps alongside emotional processing so clients can make day-to-day changes. Her background includes long-term work in health settings, caring for people with chronic illness, end-of-life needs, and traumatic hospital experiences. That experience informs how she approaches grief, hospice concerns, and caregiver stress.
Tracy draws on that history to offer grounded support for medical and emotional challenges. Tracy blends several therapy styles to match what each person needs. She uses client-centered listening, attachment-based thinking about relationships, cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thinking, and narrative or psychodynamic ideas to look at life patterns.
The methods are chosen to fit the problem and the person rather than following a single approach. Her sessions are direct and compassionate. Tracy works to be honest and transparent while avoiding judgment.
People who want practical help with anxiety, sleep trouble, self-esteem, or coping with life changes may find her approach useful.
How Tracy’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Tracy often combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to meet people where they are. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely, reflecting what matters to the person, and building on strengths. Cognitive behavioral work looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete strategies to change them.She may also use Attachment-Based ideas to understand relationship patterns that affect anxiety and stress. That perspective helps when worries are tied to how people relate to others or cope with losses. Together, these approaches aim to address both immediate coping skills and longer-standing patterns that cause pain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tracy collaborates with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful and adjusts the plan as needs or goals change. Clients are invited to give feedback about what is and isn't working so sessions stay useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people juggling health care, work, and caregiving. Video calls let the therapist and client read facial cues and hold more traditional sessions. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coping strategies, or when it helps to write things out between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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