About Stacy
Stacy Bernard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 36 years of experience. She works with adults coping with anxiety, depression, stress, grief, relationship concerns, and life changes. Her tone is warm and approachable, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable for people who are worried or unsure.
Stacy begins by listening to where a person is right now. She uses a client-centered way of working that focuses on individual needs and goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include practical skill-building to manage symptoms, adjust thinking patterns, and improve communication. Her background combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamic ideas, and mindfulness-informed practices. That mix helps address both current problems and the patterns behind them.
She also uses motivational interviewing to support people making difficult changes, such as steps around addictions or career shifts. Stacy has long experience helping adults face common life transitions. These include marriage and divorce, retirement, caring for aging parents, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and the stress of parenting.
She also supports people dealing with trauma, bipolar challenges, eating or sleeping difficulties, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. Therapy with Stacy is collaborative. She and the client shape a treatment plan together and adjust it as needs change.
The aim is clearer thinking, better coping, and small steps that add up to meaningful change. Sessions are offered in English and take place online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Stacy practices in Missouri as an MO LCSW.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Stacy draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy which centers on the person's perspective and priorities, creating space for them to set goals and move at their own pace. Mindfulness-influenced techniques are used to help with grounding, reducing reactivity, and managing persistent worry or intense emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stacy will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which strategies to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face discussion and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works well for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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