Stacy Leo, LISW-CP

Stacy Leo is a licensed social worker who helps adults facing big life changes and emotional strain. She holds the LISW-CP credential and brings ten years of experience supporting people working through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship problems, and midlife transitions.

She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Sessions often include talking through difficult feelings, improving communication, and building coping skills for burnout or compassion fatigue. Stacy pays attention to attachment histories, adoption and foster care issues, and problems that come from trauma or abuse.

Her background includes a decade of clinical practice in South Carolina. She uses person-centered ideas alongside cognitive and emotion-focused approaches to match what each person needs. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.

Stacy often helps people with career stress, parenting strain, addictions, and impulse-related concerns. She also works with issues like abandonment, blended family dynamics, divorce and separation, and infidelity. Sessions address patterns such as guilt, shame, and communication breakdowns.

In therapy she listens without judgment and partners with clients to set realistic goals. She uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when they fit the situation. Her approach is collaborative, plainspoken, and focused on usable change.

How these approaches guide online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating space for people to tell their story. It helps when someone needs empathy, validation, and time to clarify what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to shift patterns that keep someone stuck. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand and reshape strong emotional responses, which can improve closeness and reduce reactive cycles.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Stacy will discuss goals, try tools, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That collaborative process aims to match strategies to the client's needs rather than using one fixed method.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time so people can access care from different locations. Licensed professionals can guide practical homework between sessions and use exercises from CBT and EFT that translate well to remote meetings.