About Stacy
Stacy Braiuca is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience in Missouri. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, addiction issues, and big life shifts. Stacy creates a calm, respectful space where clients can name problems and try practical ways to feel better.
Her background blends talk-based work with body-aware methods. She uses Somatic approaches alongside client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques. That lets her address both feelings and the physical reactions that come with stress or trauma.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on skills people can use at home. Stacy teaches simple breathing and grounding practices, helps reframe negative thoughts, and supports clear communication. People also work on sleep routines, coping plans for intense emotions, and steps toward healthier habits.
She pays attention to identity and culture and welcomes conversations about sexuality, gender, and alternative sexual practices. Stacy also supports people dealing with caregiving stress, chronic illness, grief, and career strain. Her work includes attention to trauma and relationship patterns without pushing clients past their comfort.
Stacy describes herself as collaborative and practical. She listens, helps set goals, and adjusts pace to what each person needs. Her aim is to help people feel steadier, more able to handle daily life, and clearer about the next steps they want to take.
How somatic and talk approaches work online
Stacy integrates Somatic methods with client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral strategies. Somatic work invites attention to body sensations and breath to reduce tension and help people feel more grounded during emotional moments. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration so the conversation follows what matters most to the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to ease symptoms like anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your comfort and needs. That collaborative process helps adjust techniques over time so sessions stay useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options let people choose what feels easiest on busy days, during caregiving routines, or when mobility or distance make in-person meetings hard. The variety of formats supports consistent care and practical skill-building between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Minnesota
- Languages
- English