About Tracie
Tracie Florida is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 11 years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, addictions, and depression. She writes and speaks plainly in sessions and aims to make therapy feel manageable for people who are overwhelmed. Tracie practices from New York and offers online formats to fit busy lives.
Her background includes work in hospital units, outpatient clinics, crisis response teams, and community mental health programs.
Background and approach
That variety shaped how she responds in a session - practical, calm, and focused on what will help now. She draws on approaches backed by research to address patterns that keep problems going. Tracie helps people untangle issues such as caregiver stress, codependency, drug and alcohol concerns, and process addictions like gambling or problematic internet use.
She also supports people dealing with eating and food-related struggles, feelings of emptiness, self-harm history, and challenges common to young adults. Family problems and first responder issues are among her regular areas of focus. Sessions combine straightforward skill-building with space to say hard things.
Tracie uses tools to reduce intense emotions and to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Her goal is to help people build coping strategies that fit their daily life and values. Clients work with Tracie by arranging video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She accepts English-language and international clients and works within a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Tracie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing thoughts and behaviors and on managing strong emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments to change how they feel and act. Dialectical Behavior Therapy informed strategies emphasize emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills to reduce overwhelming reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Tracie collaborates with each person to test what helps, adjust techniques, and set clear, practical goals. She tailors methods to fit a person’s day-to-day life rather than forcing one fixed style on everyone.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work through skills visually and practice in-session. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, shorter skill coaching, or ongoing reminders between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English