About Stacie
Dr. Stacie Billingsley is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with 16 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and substance concerns.
Her style is calm and direct, aimed at practical steps people can use right away. She uses a mix of evidence-informed approaches to match each person's situation. That can mean working on thoughts and behaviors, building emotional skills, or clarifying values to guide choices.
How Stacie works
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused so progress is easy to notice. Dr. Billingsley often helps people facing big life changes, grief, or workplace stress.
She also supports those dealing with trauma, intimacy issues, caregiver strain, and struggles with identity, including LGBT matters. Parenting challenges, blended family concerns, and family of origin issues are common topics she addresses. Her practice includes work on anger, codependency, communication challenges, commitment worries, and problems related to adoption or foster care.
She also supports people managing mood conditions like bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder in simpler, practical ways. Clients can expect support for building coping skills, improving relationships, and finding clearer direction in life and career. Dr.
Billingsley aims to help people reconnect with strengths and move toward goals at a steady, manageable pace.
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What Stacie works with
The areas below are the ones Stacie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take actions that match those values. It’s useful for stress, anxiety, life transitions, and motivation-related struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. It tends to provide concrete strategies for mood and behavior change. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on identifying and shifting emotional responses to improve connection and intimacy in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they pick or combine methods so sessions line up with the client’s needs and pace in a collaborative way.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video is good for a fuller face-to-face feel. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These formats offer flexibility so people can fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules without extra travel.
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