About Stacy
Stacy Mason is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 22 years of experience. She works with people facing addictions, depression, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, trauma, and struggles with self-esteem and identity. Stacy also supports those dealing with ADHD, eating and sleeping issues, anger, career transitions, and intimacy concerns.
She brings practical, plainspoken counseling. Sessions focus on identifying strengths, setting small goals, and testing what helps in daily life.
Background and approach
Stacy uses a warm, supportive style and aims to make conversations feel calm and direct. She values working alongside each person to find realistic steps forward. Her background includes work in community mental health centers, a hospital detox unit, and with incarcerated women, as well as independent practice in New York.
She has personal experience as a parent of children with special needs and concentrates on challenges related to intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. That experience informs how she helps with school and agency advocacy concerns. Stacy blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral techniques and solution-focused planning.
She often looks for alternatives to medication when appropriate and helps people weigh options. The result is straightforward problem-solving that honors each person’s values. Sessions are available in English and Stacy accepts international clients.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How Stacy’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. The therapist creates a nonjudgmental space and follows the client’s lead to build insight and confidence, which is useful for relationship, self-esteem, and life-change concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions include practical exercises to test new behaviors and reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, or unhealthy habits.
Solution-Focused Therapy aims to find small, concrete steps that move a person toward their goals. It emphasizes what is already working and builds on strengths to create quick, realistic change.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Stacy will collaborate with the person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. She adjusts strategies as progress is made and as needs change.
Online sessions offer several practical advantages. Video calls let people work face to face when they want deeper connection. Phone sessions and live chat can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between live meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and different circumstances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English