About Tracie
Tracie Diamond is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nine years of experience. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, grief, and relationship struggles. Her approach is warm and straightforward, focused on practical ways to feel better day to day.
Tracie speaks plainly and listens closely. She helps clients spot unhelpful thought patterns and practice skills to manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs, so goals feel manageable rather than overwhelming. She uses methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy, along with mindfulness and motivational interviewing. These tools are mixed to match what a person needs most, whether that's coping skills for anxiety, relapse prevention strategies, or ways to process loss.
Tracie's background includes work across several states and settings, which shaped a practical style focused on real-life solutions. She aims to make therapy an ordinary part of the week, not a daunting task. Clients leave sessions with concrete steps they can try between meetings.
Her focus areas also cover parenting strain, body image concerns, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication problems, and hoarding. Tracie works in Iowa and conducts sessions in English. People coming to therapy can expect direct, respectful support and a plan that changes as they progress.
How these approaches work online
Tracie commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy, with mindfulness woven in. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for strong feelings and relationship stress. Mindfulness teaches simple attention and grounding exercises to reduce rumination and improve focus.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't helped before. Then she and the client decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan based on progress and preference in a collaborative way.
Online therapy here can happen by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful when visual cues matter and a full conversation is needed. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Chat and messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and keep momentum when schedules are tight. These formats make therapy easier to fit into everyday life while keeping the focus on practical skills and coaching.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Iowa
- Languages
- English