About Stacy
Stacy Jo Poffenbarger is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, loss, or problems with motivation and self-esteem. Stacy approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion as she listens and helps them name practical next steps.
Her work often centers on everyday struggles like grief, caregiving strain, and challenges related to addiction. She also supports people managing relationship and family stress, anger, career worries, eating concerns, and ADHD-related difficulties.
Background and approach
Stacy tailors conversations and plans to each person's situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach. In sessions she draws on methods that teach skills and shift unhelpful patterns. That means breaking down problems into workable pieces, practicing new ways of thinking and behaving, and building stronger coping skills.
She blends talking and skill practice so people leave with concrete tools to try between meetings. Stacy pays attention to how life events like loss, trauma, and caregiving wear on a person over time. She helps people process painful memories, reduce overwhelming emotions, and strengthen motivation for change.
For anyone juggling many demands, she focuses on small changes that make daily life easier. She keeps learning about newer treatment ideas and adjusts plans as needs change. If someone wants clear steps, emotional relief, and steady support, Stacy aims to provide straightforward guidance and collaborative care.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Stacy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT breaks issues into smaller parts and gives clear skills for managing anxiety, stress, motivation, and mood.She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. DBT skills are useful when emotions feel intense or when someone wants reliable tools for calmer reactions.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Stacy will talk through a person's needs and goals and adjust methods as progress is made. That collaboration helps match techniques to what a person prefers and what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people talk face-to-face when they want more personal connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels like too much. Live chat and text-based messaging are options for quick check-ins, shorter conversations, or ongoing support between sessions. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use the format that best supports steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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