About Stacy
Stacy Ciano uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She is a medical doctor and a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland with two decades of experience. Stacy writes plainly and listens closely to each person's story to find workable steps forward.
She centers sessions on what matters most to the individual. Stacy combines mindful awareness with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused work.
How Stacy works
That means clients learn ways to notice difficult thoughts and feelings, test unhelpful thinking patterns, and build stronger emotional connections to their goals. Stacy also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when people feel overwhelmed or stuck. She helps people develop everyday practices that reduce reactivity and increase stability.
Practical skills include grounding techniques, behavioral experiments, and clear action steps between sessions. Her experience includes helping people cope with life changes, relationship and communication struggles, and long-term conditions such as chronic pain or illness. Stacy supports work on issues like abandonment, body image, guilt, shame, and panic symptoms.
She focuses on small, achievable shifts that add up to real change. Stacy aims to make therapy straightforward and understandable. She helps clients set realistic goals, track progress, and adjust strategies as life changes.
The emphasis is on steady, manageable improvement rather than quick fixes.
Stacy lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Stacy works with
The areas below are the ones Stacy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
How Stacy's approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking committed actions that matter. Online sessions introduce simple exercises to notice thoughts and choose small steps that align with personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors; over video or chat, clients practice behavioral experiments and thought records with guidance. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and shifting emotional responses to improve relationships with oneself and others; in remote sessions, this often involves guided conversations and exercises to deepen emotional awareness.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Stacy will discuss which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust techniques as progress is tracked. That collaborative process helps make sure the plan feels useful and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction and joint skill practice, phone calls can fit into breaks or low-bandwidth situations, and text or live chat are convenient for short check-ins or when writing helps processing. These options make it easier to build therapy into a busy life while keeping continuity of care and the same therapeutic methods available remotely.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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