About Stacey
Stacey Zimmerman, LCSW, draws on attachment ideas and practical behavioral work to help people manage anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and phobias. She keeps sessions straightforward and aims to make therapy feel like a genuine conversation where clients can be themselves. Stacey uses her social work training to notice patterns and offer clear steps clients can try between sessions.
She blends therapies that focus on what happens now with attention to past experiences that shaped coping habits.
Background and approach
That means looking at roots of behaviors and also practicing skills to reduce symptoms. Sessions often include talking through patterns, checking how feelings show up in the body, and trying small experiments to test new ways of responding. Her background includes work across community mental health, juvenile detention, therapeutic foster care, geriatric assisted living, medical social work, and independent practice.
Stacey also served 14 years in the U.S. Army and later worked with the U.S. Navy as a contractor.
This range of settings informs a flexible, down-to-earth approach to care. Stacey favors an atmosphere of respect and curiosity. She invites clients to be authentic and treats them as the expert on their own life.
She avoids giving direct advice and instead offers invitations to consider different choices and actions. Therapy can bring up hard feelings, and she plans sessions so clients are not left overwhelmed. Stacey aims to balance sensitivity with growth, helping people handle uncomfortable emotions while building new coping skills.
Many people seek her help for anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma, and stress-related issues.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and attachment work
Stacey often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her online work. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and choosing actions that match personal values, which can help with anxiety and avoidance. CBT looks at thought patterns and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce symptoms and change unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Stacey will listen to your goals and try different methods to see what fits your needs and preferences. Together you will decide whether to emphasize acceptance, skill practice, or exploration of attachment patterns based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets you connect face to face for skills practice and feedback. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or when being off-camera helps focus. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, brief skill coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to maintain regular contact and fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Utah, Florida
- Languages
- English
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