About Stacy
Stacy Jo Poffenbarger is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 17 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and struggles with motivation and self-esteem. She works with clients who are navigating addiction, caregiver fatigue, and major life changes.
Stacy offers a respectful, down-to-earth approach to support practical change. She uses clear, goal-focused conversations to identify what feels most urgent. Sessions often include skill building for coping, stress management, and improving communication.
Background and approach
For people facing trauma or longstanding distress, Stacy combines talk-based work with trauma-informed techniques aimed at reducing distress and improving daily functioning. Her clinical toolkit includes cognitive behavioral strategies to reshape unhelpful thinking patterns and dialectical behavior techniques for emotion regulation and relationship challenges.
She also uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for processing traumatic memories, plus mindfulness and motivational interviewing to increase present-moment skills and readiness for change. Stacy pays attention to each person’s history, including adoption and attachment concerns, caregiving burden, chronic illness, or loss. She adapts the pace and focus so therapy matches real life demands and goals.
Her background across many problem areas helps her create practical plans that fit a client’s daily routine. People who want straightforward help with coping skills, grief work, addiction recovery support, or managing stress and relationships can expect collaborative planning and steady encouragement. Stacy aims to make the work manageable and oriented toward clear next steps.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Stacy commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to address both current symptoms and past trauma. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change thought patterns that increase anxiety or low mood, and it includes practical homework and skill practice. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing offers structured ways to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity when those memories come up.Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will listen to your goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to move from problem-focused sessions to clear, manageable next steps.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let sessions fit different schedules and needs. Video calls make it easy to have more in-depth conversations and use visual cues. Phone sessions can be quicker to join and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, homework support, and when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These formats increase flexibility so therapy can fit work, caregiving, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English