Stacy Braiuca
Experienced Missouri LCSW focused on practical help
- Credentials
- LCSW, LSCSW
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stacy
Stacy Braiuca is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of practice in Missouri. She uses straightforward, practical work to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or big life changes. Stacy keeps sessions focused and collaborative so each person leaves with clearer steps and options.
Stacy aims to build a calm, respectful space where clients can talk through hard things without judgment. She listens closely to what matters most and tailors the work to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Conversations often center on everyday coping skills, clearer communication, and small habit changes that make life easier. Her background includes a long history of supporting people through mood disorders, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges around identity and intimacy. Stacy also addresses issues like sleep problems, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and struggles with substance use.
Her experience spans workplace and career stress, compassion fatigue, and situations involving domestic violence or disasters. In sessions she draws on practical methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and hypnotherapy when appropriate. These tools are used to reduce distress, shift unhelpful patterns, and build skills for daily life.
The work is paced to fit each person’s comfort and goals. Stacy welcomes conversations about sensitive or nontraditional topics, including BDSM and kink culture, gender dysphoria, and alternative sexual practices. She also offers coaching-style support for life purpose, communication problems, and recovery-focused work.
Her approach centers on respect, clear goals, and steady progress.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s needs. The therapist follows the client’s priorities, reflects what is said, and helps people decide what matters most. This approach helps when someone wants a respectful space to sort feelings or make decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. Sessions include simple exercises and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or lift mood. CBT is very hands-on and works well over video or phone when practicing skills together.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk about options, try methods that match your goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps you pick techniques that feel useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet care needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions fit busy schedules, and live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or coaching-style support. These formats make it easier to stick with regular sessions and to use therapy tools in daily life.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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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
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