About Stacy
Stacy Tallman, LISW, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, stress, or major life changes. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Stacy speaks plainly and aims to create a calm, respectful space for people to talk about what matters most to them.
With seven years of experience, Stacy uses a person-centered, collaborative approach. She draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral tools, acceptance and commitment ideas, and strategies from dialectical behavior therapy to address thinking patterns, emotional reactions, and coping skills.
Background and approach
She also integrates EMDR when trauma processing is needed, always tailoring the work to each person’s pace. She has particular experience with grief related to separation, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment questions, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to neurodivergence such as autism. Stacy also supports people dealing with relationship pain, intimacy issues, identity and LGBT concerns, burnout, and career stress.
Her background includes helping with self-harm thoughts and feelings of emptiness in thoughtful, step-by-step ways. Stacy respects each person’s beliefs and will work from a faith-based or secular perspective depending on what the client prefers. She emphasizes small, concrete changes that fit into daily routines and checks in about progress regularly.
Based in Iowa, Stacy approaches therapy as a partnership. She guides goal-setting, offers practical skills, and adjusts methods based on what is most helpful for each person.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that point toward those values, while also learning to sit with difficult feelings without getting stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns and build practical coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method used to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity when people are ready to address them.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Stacy will talk with each person about their history, goals, and what feels most useful, then suggest methods to try. The plan can be adjusted over time based on what helps in real life, so clients are part of deciding how therapy proceeds.
If you are considering online work, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the profile. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules demand it. Many people find that remote sessions help them practice skills where they live and work, and therapists can use worksheets, coaching between meetings, and paced trauma work adapted for remote conversations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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