Stacey Sugar

Stacey Sugar is a licensed counselor who uses mindfulness as a core part of her work. She blends mindful awareness with practical talk therapy to help people notice patterns, manage strong feelings, and make different choices. Stacey presents herself as a steady guide who helps clients slow down and look at how their past and present shape their everyday life.

She emphasizes that people are authors of their own stories and that perspective can change how a story feels. Sessions focus on identifying automatic defenses and habits, and then practicing new responses that fit a client’s goals. Stacey helps people name emotions, test new behaviors, and reflect on small shifts that add up over time.

Her approach draws from attachment-based ideas and client-centered listening so people feel heard and understood. Stacey also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to reframe unhelpful thoughts and existential ideas to clarify values and meaning. This mix aims to make therapy both practical and personally meaningful.

Stacey has 14 years of clinical experience and works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, trauma and grief. She also addresses subjects like codependency, commitment worries, family of origin issues, first responder stress, and body image concerns.

Stacey practices in California and holds the LCPC credential for Maryland and the LPCC credential for California. Sessions are conducted in English. To begin, readers are asked to use the site’s Start Therapy button and complete a short questionnaire to be matched and scheduled.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Mindfulness Therapy is about paying attention to thoughts and bodily sensations in a simple, steady way. It helps people reduce reactivity during stress and notice choices instead of acting on impulse. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns show up in current connections and helps people try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stacey treats therapy as collaborative and will help clients test methods and notice what helps. Together they set goals and adjust techniques based on what feels most useful and realistic for a person’s life.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, shorten travel time, and allow follow-up check-ins between in-person commitments. The biography does not list specific session formats here, so readers should confirm current session options before booking. Licensed professionals offer therapy online in ways that aim to match a client’s needs while keeping sessions focused, practical, and able to fit into everyday routines.