About Tracie
Tracie Diamond is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nine years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, trauma, ADHD, and related concerns. Tracie writes in a straightforward, warm style and aims to make therapy feel approachable and doable.
Her sessions focus on clear goals. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new coping skills. Conversations are practical and grounded in real-life problems rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Tracie encourages small steps that add up to real change. Tracie blends several evidence-informed methods to match a person's needs. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to tackle negative thinking.
Dialectical behavior strategies help with strong emotions and interpersonal stress. Mindfulness practices are introduced to build moment-to-moment awareness. Clients can expect collaborative planning.
Tracie listens for what matters most and then maps simple strategies to those goals. She checks progress and adjusts plans when needed, keeping work focused and action-oriented. Her background includes clinical work across multiple states and settings, with a focus on adult mental health and substance-related concerns.
Tracie holds licensure in Iowa as an LMHC and elsewhere as an LPC, and she brings practical experience to sessions that aims to be respectful and direct.
How Tracie’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Tracie commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and related behaviors. CBT is practical and problem-focused, which makes it easy to practice between sessions for issues like anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT skills can help when strong emotions or relationship strain get in the way of daily functioning. Mindfulness practices are offered to build attention and reduce reactivity in everyday moments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to set goals and tries methods that fit the client's preferences and life demands. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy with Tracie is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth is needed; live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or sessions when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to make scheduling more flexible and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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