About Tracey
Tracey Nicole Waite is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of experience in Florida. She works with people facing anxiety, grief, depression, relationship struggles, and stress. Her manner is warm and interactive, and she focuses on helping people take practical steps toward feeling better.
Tracey has worked in many settings across the lifespan and has experience with perinatal and infant loss, end-of-life concerns, physical disabilities, trauma, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.
Background and approach
She draws on several approaches to match treatment to each person's needs. Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused on real-life change. Her counseling style emphasizes empathy, nonjudgmental support, and a strengths-based outlook.
Tracey combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with client-centered and attachment-focused ideas to help people manage mood, improve relationships, and cope with major life changes. She also uses strategies from dialectical behavior approaches when emotion regulation and impulse control are concerns. In therapy she helps people build practical skills for everyday challenges.
That can include managing anxious thoughts, improving sleep, dealing with caregiver stress, or working through grief. She pays attention to the roles people hold and the pressures those roles create. Tracey encourages a collaborative process where goals are set together.
She guides clients through small, achievable steps and supports them as they try new ways of coping and relating. Her practice is grounded in real-world solutions and steady, respectful support.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and then take action that aligns with what matters most. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions; it helps when relationship trust, abandonment, or connection problems are central. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, mood disorders, and sleep problems.Deciding which approach to use is a joint process. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has or hasn’t worked before, and your preferences. Together you will try methods that fit your situation and adjust the plan as needed to find what helps most.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets you have a face-to-face conversation from another room. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skills practice, and staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain continuity over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English