About Tracey
Tracey Boubacar is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in North Carolina. She brings ten years of experience helping people manage depression, anxiety, stress, and issues with self-esteem. Tracey focuses on relationship struggles, parenting concerns, anger, and addictions, and she also works with clients facing career challenges and the emotional impact of life transitions.
She offers a culturally aware approach and pays attention to how prejudice, discrimination, and multicultural identity shape a person's experience.
Background and approach
Tracey has particular experience supporting military veterans and people dealing with infidelity or jealousy. Her work often includes concerns related to LGBT identity, bipolar mood differences, and compassion fatigue. In session she combines practical skills and thoughtful listening.
She uses methods drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and client-centered work to help people manage thoughts and feelings. She draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and the Gottman Method when relationship skills or emotion regulation are central to the work. Tracey aims to build simple, usable tools tailored to each person's situation.
Sessions focus on small, concrete steps that fit into everyday life. She partners with clients to set clear goals and track progress toward them. She works in English and accepts international clients.
Tracey holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - credential in North Carolina. Her practice emphasizes respect for each person's story and practical ways to move forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and committed action. It helps people notice difficult thoughts and still move toward what matters to them, which can be useful for depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, often helping with anxiety, depression, and stress. The Gottman Method centers on relationship skills and communication, offering concrete tools for couples to reduce conflict and rebuild trust.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Tracey collaborates with each person to identify which methods match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. She adjusts techniques over time based on what is helping and what feels workable in everyday life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work face to face when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or the client prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep working on goals from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English