About Lacey
Lacey Schmitt is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with six years of counseling experience. She focuses on mood disorders, trauma, grief, and related challenges that can make daily life harder. Lacey brings a warm, down-to-earth presence to sessions and aims to build a straightforward, honest relationship with each person she sees.
She uses several therapy approaches and mixes tools to fit what each person needs. Sessions prioritize being heard and accepted while learning practical skills for coping.
Background and approach
Lacey emphasizes real conversation and clear feedback rather than jargon or one-size-fits-all plans. Her background includes substantial hospice social work, which informs how she supports people facing loss, end-of-life concerns, and caregiver stress. That experience also shaped her approach to grief, chronic illness, and aging-related worries.
Lacey often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to tackle unhelpful thinking and on client-centered methods to follow the person’s lead in sessions. She also uses trauma-focused methods appropriate for people working through painful memories or reactions to abuse. People come to her for help with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, ADHD, sleep problems, and self-esteem struggles.
She works with adults and teens and tailors a plan based on goals and everyday realities. Sessions aim to blend practical skill-building with honest conversation. Lacey encourages small, manageable steps so progress feels realistic.
She partners with clients to find solutions that fit their lives and priorities.
Practical approaches for online therapy and healing
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so the person feels heard, and sessions concentrate on the issues the person finds most important.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that lead to stress or low mood. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing everyday challenges by teaching concrete coping skills.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used for trauma work to help reduce the intensity of distressing memories and reactions. It can be helpful when past events continue to affect daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time so sessions stay helpful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can suit brief check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while still accessing licensed professionals.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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