About Stacey
Stacey Zimmerman is a licensed clinical social worker who combines attachment-focused thinking with practical therapy methods. She centers sessions on real-life problems like anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship concerns. Stacey keeps language simple and direct so parents and busy adults can follow along.
She offers video, phone, chat, and text sessions from Florida. Stacey uses ideas from attachment work to look at how early connections shape present relationships and feelings.
Background and approach
She blends that with cognitive and behavioral tools to help manage symptoms like sleep problems, anger, or mood shifts. Sessions often move between past experiences and present struggles to find helpful patterns. Her background includes work in community mental health, juvenile detention, therapeutic foster care, geriatric assisted living, medical social work, and independent practice.
Before her clinical career she served 14 years in the U.S. Army, including active duty, reserves, and the National Guard, and later worked as a contractor with the U.S. Navy.
That range informs how she adapts to different life situations. In the room, Stacey listens closely and invites clients to try practical steps between sessions. She describes her role as offering invitations rather than direct advice, and asks clients to say when a session feels too uncomfortable.
This helps keep progress steady while managing hard feelings. Stacey earned her clinical social work license and has six years of post-master's clinical experience. Her approach is collaborative and rooted in helping people make manageable changes that fit their daily lives.
How attachment work and skills-based therapy fit online
Stacey draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early connections shape feelings and current relationships. That work helps when patterns of closeness or avoidance show up in daily life, such as repeat fights, fears of abandonment, or trouble trusting others.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and to practice concrete behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and for managing mood shifts. Those two approaches together let sessions explore why patterns started and what practical steps can reduce distress now.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust methods over time, mixing exploration of the past with skills and experiments in the present.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins, and chat or text suit short updates or brief coaching between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for parents and people balancing work and caregiving.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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