Stacey Zimmerman, LCSW
Somatic-informed therapist focusing on attachment and coping
About Stacey
Stacey Zimmerman is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people understand how their bodies and histories shape their feelings. She uses somatic ideas alongside talk-based work to help clients notice bodily signals, thoughts, and patterns that drive stress and relationship struggles.
Stacey aims to create a straightforward, respectful space where people can be genuine and explore what is happening for them. She draws on six years of post-master's experience in a variety of settings.
Background and approach
Her background includes community mental health, juvenile detention centers, therapeutic foster care, geriatric wellness-assisted living, medical social work, and independent practice. Before her clinical work she spent 14 years in the U.S. Army and later worked as a contractor with the U.S.
Navy, which shaped her practical, organized approach to problem solving. In sessions she balances exploring the roots of a problem with practical coping strategies. Stacey describes her style as integrative and analytical yet simple.
She encourages authenticity and invites clients to try new ways of thinking and acting rather than offering direct advice. Stacey works with a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and attachment issues, grief, ADHD, eating and sleep problems, parenting stress, and career strain. She also addresses areas like body image, codependency, abandonment fears, and family of origin patterns.
She holds a master’s degree and the credential LCSW, licensed in Kentucky (KY LCSW 256077) and Florida (FL LCSW SW24132). Sessions are available in English and offered through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How Stacey Uses Somatic and Evidence-Based Methods Online
Somatic-informed work focuses on noticing bodily sensations and how they connect to emotions. It helps when stress or trauma shows up as tightness, racing heart, or numbness by teaching simple ways to track and respond to those signals. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, supports people in clarifying their values and taking steps that matter even when unpleasant thoughts or feelings appear. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early connection patterns and how they affect current relationships; it helps people understand repeating cycles and try new ways of relating.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Stacey works collaboratively to figure out what fits each person's goals and preferences. She invites feedback and adjusts methods over time so sessions stay practical and relevant to daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make scheduling easier and reduce travel time. These options let people use short check-ins or longer sessions depending on need, and support steady care even when life is busy or circumstances change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Utah, Florida
- Languages
- English