About Stacy
Stacy Mason is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York with 22 years of experience. She helps people facing addictions, depression, anxiety, grief, relationship and parenting stress, eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, and related life changes. Stacy also supports issues around intimacy, LGBT concerns, trauma, and family conflict.
Stacy draws on a client-centered style that is warm and compassionate. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her.
How Stacy works
She uses clear, practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work to help people make small changes that add up. Her background includes work in community mental health centers, a hospital detox unit, and with incarcerated women, in addition to independent practice.
She has long experience with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism, and understands the challenges of parenting and advocating for a child with special needs. Stacy takes a holistic view and discusses alternatives to medication when appropriate. She looks for strengths, practical solutions, and ways to reduce daily stress.
Her manner is supportive, positive, and goal-oriented while remaining respectful of each person's pace. People can expect straightforward conversations, coping strategies they can try between sessions, and collaborative planning. Stacy aims to make therapy useful and manageable for busy lives, whether the focus is on behavior change, relationship concerns, or navigating caregiving and family stress.
Stacy lists 3 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.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches for change through online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building on a person's own strengths. The therapist follows the person's lead, offers empathy, and helps people clarify what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. Solution-focused therapy targets small, achievable steps and goals so progress can be seen quickly and built on.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Stacy will discuss goals, preferences, and immediate needs and then recommend methods to try. That way the plan is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers multiple ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues for richer conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, reflections between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between appointments.
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A practical next step
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