About Tracy
Tracy Flug is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 23 years of practice in California. She focuses on helping adults and seniors facing health-related and emotional challenges. Tracy works with people coping with loss, grief, chronic illness, traumatic hospital stays, and trauma-related concerns.
She aims to create a space where clients feel heard and respected. Her background is rooted in health and medical settings, so she is familiar with the stresses that come with illness and end-of-life issues.
Background and approach
Tracy uses practical strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral methods and narrative approaches to help people make sense of painful experiences. She also draws on attachment-based and psychodynamic ideas when understanding long-standing relationship patterns. Sessions are collaborative and driven by the person seeking help.
Tracy begins by listening closely to what matters most, then outlines steps that fit each person’s situation. Goals tend to be concrete and manageable, such as reducing anxiety, improving sleep, or processing grief. Her style is direct and compassionate.
She offers a nonjudgmental setting and speaks plainly about options and next steps. People who value straightforward guidance and steady support often find this approach useful. Tracy works with common life stresses and complex medical or trauma histories.
She supports people who want practical coping tools, clearer thinking about painful events, and steady help through transitions. To start the process she asks about current concerns and priorities so therapy can move forward in useful steps.
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
The therapist uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting, which can ease anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect trust and coping now, which can help with shame, abandonment issues, and relational stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest techniques that fit your situation. Decisions about which methods to use are made collaboratively and can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can work during a busy day, and chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and keep momentum while working toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English