- Guilt and shame focus
- Trauma informed methods
- Christian counseling option
About Stacey
Stacey Gooden is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. Stacey also focuses on issues of abandonment, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety and phobia.
Stacey uses straightforward talk and practical techniques. Sessions include cognitive strategies and relaxation tools to help calm the body and sort through anxious thoughts. She also offers elements drawn from Internal Family Systems and EMDR approaches to help people process painful memories and shift how those memories affect daily life.
Faith and spiritual values are part of her practice for clients who want that perspective. Stacey integrates Christian counseling principles alongside therapeutic techniques when clients identify that as important to their healing. She invites clients to bring whatever matters to them into the session, including beliefs, doubts, and questions.
Stacey keeps sessions focused on concrete steps and reflection. She helps people name what they feel, trace how those feelings show up day to day, and try small changes to see what helps. Conversations aim to reduce the weight of guilt and shame by clarifying patterns and building new responses.
Her background includes 15 years of work with trauma-related concerns and mood disorders in Texas. Stacey asks about each person’s goals up front and adjusts methods to fit what they want to address. For someone carrying shame or guilt, she provides a direct, steady way to examine those feelings and the choices around them.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Stacey draws on cognitive techniques to help people notice and challenge unhelpful thoughts. These methods are useful for anxiety, depressive thinking, and guilt that keeps repeating in the mind.She also uses Internal Family Systems ideas to help people map different inner parts and understand conflicting feelings. This approach can make shame and abandonment feelings easier to name and talk about.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stacey will discuss options with each person and choose methods together based on goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps decide whether to focus on thinking skills, memory processing, or inner-part work in ongoing sessions.
The original biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm available session types before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time that might otherwise be a barrier. Therapists and licensed professionals often adapt exercises for a virtual setting so practical tools can be used between sessions as well.
Areas of expertise
Additional focus areas
Experience
15+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include abandonment, guilt and shame, isolation, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety.
How would she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She uses cognitive strategies and relaxation techniques to identify thought patterns and calm the body. She also incorporates methods aimed at processing memories so shame and guilt feel more manageable.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience working with trauma-related concerns and mood disorders in Texas.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LPC, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor, and she practices in Texas.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not list session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.