About Stacia
Stacia Gilstrap is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and mood concerns. She also supports those facing LGBT issues, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting stress, and challenges with self-esteem or career direction. Stacia aims to create a respectful, compassionate space for people to talk and heal.
She keeps sessions practical and focused on what matters most to each person. Stacia uses techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches to notice unhelpful thoughts.
How Stacia works
She also draws on acceptance and commitment strategies to build values-based action and on dialectical skills for strong emotion management. Attachment-based ideas guide how she looks at relationships and patterns that started early in life. Her client-centered stance means conversations are led by each person's priorities, pace, and goals.
Together she and the client shape a plan that fits the situation and personality. Stacia has five years of clinical experience as an LPC in Missouri. She adapts tools to suit people coping with complex issues like panic, obsessions, bipolar mood shifts, and compassion fatigue.
She pays attention to the whole picture, including financial stress, caregiving strain, and concerns about life purpose. People can expect clear, straightforward explanations of techniques and homework that ties into daily life. Sessions balance skill-building with space to process feelings.
The aim is steady progress toward better coping and clearer choices.
Stacia lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Stacia works with
The areas below are the ones Stacia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and taking actions that match personal values. It helps people who feel stuck by teaching small, values-driven steps and practical exercises that can be done between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and provides concrete tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which works well for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores relationship patterns and early bonds to understand how current relationships and reactions developed, helping people change repeating patterns that cause pain.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will listen to a person's concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest approaches that fit. This is a collaborative effort and techniques are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is low or a simpler check-in is needed, live chat for shorter exchanges, and text-based messaging for brief updates or reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, keep momentum between sessions, and use methods like in-the-moment skill practice or journaling prompts that transfer directly into daily life.
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