About Stacy
Stacy Uptain is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people feeling stuck by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, anger, or depression. Stacy speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
Stacy believes each person knows their own story and has strengths to build on. In sessions she helps identify small, doable changes that reduce overwhelm and improve mood.
How Stacy works
She guides conversations about relationships, communication problems, and feelings like abandonment or jealousy without using jargon. Her work commonly addresses life events such as divorce and separation, infidelity, and family problems. Stacy also supports people dealing with emptiness, guilt or shame, impulsivity, and isolation.
She pays attention to mood patterns, including seasonal affective disorder, and helps clients clarify life purpose and self-love. Stacy uses approaches that focus on practical solutions and changing unhelpful thought patterns. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot thinking habits that feed anxiety or low mood.
For relationship concerns she uses the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict. Treatment is collaborative and goal oriented. Stacy helps people set clear, short-term goals and checks progress regularly.
The tone in sessions is direct but compassionate, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes. She practices in Nevada and conducts sessions in English. To get started clients follow a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nevada |
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Online support options
Online approaches for relationships and mood
Stacy uses methods that focus on changing thoughts and improving how people relate to each other. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood by changing unhelpful thinking and practicing new behaviors. The Gottman Method centers on improving communication, managing conflict, and rebuilding trust in close relationships through structured skills and exercises.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Stacy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and recommend techniques that fit. That shared decision-making helps set clear short-term goals and keeps sessions targeted to what matters most to the client.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow more in-depth conversation when face-to-face interaction matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging give options for brief updates, ongoing encouragement, or more flexible scheduling. These formats help people fit therapy into busy lives while working on stress, relationship skills, or mood concerns.
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