Therapist profile
Stacie Brethauer, LPC
Pennsylvania
Licensed Professional Counselor - Relationships and Anxiety
Continue with StacieWhere Stacie stands
- Credentials
- LPC
- License
- LPC, Pennsylvania / PC012280
- NPI
- 1871982892
- Experience
- 13 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Pennsylvania
About
- CBT strategies
- Attachment focus
- Mindfulness tools
About Stacie
Stacie Brethauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 13 years of experience in the mental health field. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, self-esteem struggles, grief, addictions, and life transitions. Stacie also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and issues related to LGBT identity.
Her style centers on practical tools that can be used day to day. Sessions focus on sorting through what feels most urgent, choosing a small number of strategies, and practicing them until they fit into ordinary life. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas, attachment-informed thinking, emotionally-focused work, client-centered listening, and mindfulness practices.
Stacie aims to make coping strategies simple and clear. She helps people break down big problems into manageable steps and tries to make techniques easy to apply between sessions. Conversations tend to focus on what someone is trying to change and which actions will move them toward that goal.
Her background includes work across counseling and behavior support over more than a decade. That experience informs how she looks at patterns in relationships, family of origin concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and codependency. Stacie also brings experience with body image, commitment and control issues, blended family dynamics, and fertility and fatherhood concerns.
People meet her to get straightforward help with setting boundaries, managing emotions, and coping with life shocks. To begin, she asks what is on someone’s mind and helps pick the first small step to try.
How sessions work
How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps identify repeated interaction styles. Online sessions can be used to notice those patterns and practice different responses to closeness and distance. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, validation, and following the client's lead; in an online setting that usually means longer stretches of reflective conversation and checking what matters most to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on clearer links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives step-by-step skills to try between sessions.Finding the right blend of these approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked in the past. Together they decide which methods to prioritize and how to adapt them to the client's daily life.
The biography does not list specific session formats here, so confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove the need to travel. Many people find it simpler to practice strategies in the setting where problems happen, and that practical fit is often discussed when arranging appointments.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
13+ years
Listed in
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, low self-esteem, grief, addictions, trauma, parenting strain, ADHD, and related issues such as codependency and family of origin problems.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach combines client-centered listening with practical methods from cognitive behavioral, attachment-based, emotionally-focused, and mindfulness approaches to get clear, usable strategies.
How much experience does she have?
She has worked in the mental health field for 13 years, including counseling and behavior support roles that inform her clinical approach.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; sessions are provided to clients within the therapist's allowed locations.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to start therapy with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.