Services

Therapy can take place face-to-face in the office, through Skype or on the telephone, and lasts for approximately 50 minutes. It usually involves working with individuals on issues that are imbedded in the past. Resolving conflict from the past may be the only way to progress forward. Once individuals are able to move through past- related issues, the focus becomes on the present and future. Therapy is usually centered in finding ways to change thoughts, feelings, and behavior. The treatment goals can involve an increased sense of well-being, relationship building, improving communication levels, and changing behavior patterns.

Life Coaching and Recovery Coaching can take place face-to-face in the office, through Skype or on the telephone.

Life Coaching involves more of an equal partnership between coach and client -- a process of inquiry that empowers clients to reconnect with their own inner wisdom, to find their own answers and to rediscover powerful moments of choice where self- transformation occurs. It creates a bridge from where you are to where you want to be in your life. Coaching is intensely goal-oriented. The coach and client work together on identifying core personal development values which when honored are connecting the client to goals in life. A vision is created, which includes both values and goals. An action plan is developed to make the vision become the client’s reality by removing stumbling blocks that may have in the past impeded the client from moving forward and realizing their vision. There is frequent email contact between sessions to further track progress. Life Coaching involves structured homework assignments that are tailored to the client’s goals. Coaching is not advice, therapy, or counseling, but may address specific personal issues, projects, situations and transitions within the client’s life.

Coaching techniques may be introduced into a therapy session if it is deemed appropriate for a client.

Recovery Coaching is not unlike Life Coaching in how it’s modality functions. Recovery Coaching specifically targets clients who have been sober for a minimum of 30 days. With Recovery Coaching, however, the focus is on the client maintaining sobriety while connecting to personal development values, a life purpose and a life vision.

Clinical Hypnotherapy can take place in the office or through a Skype session for approximately 50 minutes. Hypnosis involves putting the client in a trance-like state to accept positive suggestions supporting the client’s goal(s). This technique taps into the unconscious mind to release emotional blocks and/or limiting beliefs that have, in the past, impeded the client's personal growth. This empowering process allows the client to move through barriers and to reach their goals based on their own definition of success.

Specialty areas include: calming anxiety, smoking cessation, increasing self-confidence and increasing motivation through the use of hypnosis.

Stacie's Approach Stacie offers nurturing and nonjudgmental therapy, life coaching, recovery coaching and hypnotherapy services in a confidential setting. She structures the treatment to accommodate her client's schedules and individual needs. When appropriate, she uses a mind-body-spirit approach. By living a more holistic life, she believes a sense of balance can be created that will reduce vulnerability to crises. Stacie utilizes the following techniques to help facilitate the change phase in sessions with her clients:

Solution Focus Therapy Solution-focused brief therapy targets what works rather than what’s wrong. It is based on a non-pathology model that emphasizes the strengths and resources of client(s) in a collaborative effort to reach goals and resolve problems rapidly. Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy is based on the premise that whenever we become upset, it is not the events taking place in our lives that upset us; it is the beliefs that we hold that cause us to become depressed, anxious, enraged, etc. It is used to make behavioral changes at a cognitive level. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Cognitive-behavioral therapy is based on the idea that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors, not external things, like people, situations, and events.  The benefit of this fact is that we can change the way we think to feel / act better even if the situation does not change. It allows the client to make behavioral changes from a cognitive level. Positive Psychology Positive Psychology fosters happiness in humans by focusing not only on what is broken in an individual but what facilitates growth and wellness. Trauma Resilience Model (TRM) Trauma Resilience Model is used to stabilize the nervous system by reducing and/or preventing the symptoms of traumatic stress from the past or present and/or life stressors. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Neuro- Linguistic Programming is a model used to connect to the unconscious mind to eliminate negative emotions and beliefs that in the past have prevented an individual from moving forward with their goals. Mindfulness Based Techniques Mindfulness Based Techniques help clients detach from negative thoughts and feelings. This technique allows clients to be an observer of their thoughts and feelings, recognize them for what they are, and realize that they are more than the sum of their thoughts and feelings. This skill implementation permits the client to move into a liberating mental space, which brings about positive change at a rapid rate. Hypnotherapy Hypnotherapy is another technique utilized to tap into the unconscious, and puts the client in a trance-like state where they are more likely to accept positive suggestions that support the client’s goal. Listed below are a few of the many issues that can be helped with hypnosis: • Calming Anxiety • Smoking Cessation • Increasing Self-Confidence • Increasing Motivation

Focus/Specialty/Expertise Areas:

• Connecting to your life purpose by identifying and honoring your personal core values
• Increasing Resilience to Trauma- either trauma recently experienced or trauma embedded in your past
• Diminishing depression and/or anxiety 
• Reducing self-sabotaging behavior that keeps you stuck in the quick sand
• Setting healthier boundaries
• Decreasing anger reactions to triggers while increasing a sense of being calm
• Increasing self-esteem/Improving body image
• Applying traditional & alternative approaches to overcome addiction (food, drug, alcohol, tobacco)
• Reducing people pleasing behavior
• Overcoming emotional eating
• Coping with grief/loss