Stacie Story, LPC

Stacie Story is a licensed professional counselor with 30 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, depression, and life transitions. She focuses on practical ways to strengthen self-esteem, manage emotions, and improve communication. People often come for help with family tension, caregiving strain, relationship problems, and finding purpose.

Her practice emphasizes straightforward, respectful conversation. Sessions aim to clarify immediate concerns and set small, doable goals. She uses talk-based work to help clients name problems and practice different responses in everyday situations.

Stacie blends several evidence-informed methods to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thought patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the conversation focused on the person’s experience and priorities.

She also uses solution-focused techniques to create short-term plans that lead to quick, measurable changes. Over time the work can shift from symptom relief to building habits that support long-term wellbeing. Stacie pays special attention to women's issues, aging and geriatric concerns, caregiver stress, postpartum depression, and isolation.

Stacie practices in South Carolina and conducts sessions in English. Her approach is faith-informed when clients want that element included, but the pace and focus always follow the client's goals. To begin, clients use the site Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

Approaches that translate well to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own perspective and priorities. In practice it means the therapist listens closely and helps the client shape goals and next steps that feel achievable. This approach is useful for concerns like low self-esteem, life purpose questions, and interpersonal stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small experiments or behavioral changes between meetings to test new ways of coping. CBT is often chosen for anxiety, depression, and stress management.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether a skills-based path like CBT or DBT, a client-centered conversation, or a solution-focused plan is the best fit given goals and daily life. That plan can be adjusted as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know the exact formats offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy routine, allow quick check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Some formats also let people choose shorter or audio-only sessions when that fits their schedule or bandwidth needs.