Stacy Jo Poffenbarger, LMHC

Stacy Jo Poffenbarger is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 17 years of professional experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, motivation and self-esteem struggles, and people managing the effects of addiction and caregiving strain. She also addresses relationship and family concerns and codependency-related patterns.

In sessions she talks through what is creating pressure and helps clients sort practical next steps. She uses clear strategies to manage overwhelming feelings and to rebuild motivation and confidence. When grief or loss is present she focuses on how to live with that change day to day rather than pushing it aside.

Stacy draws on evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, EMDR, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She blends these methods to match the concern at hand and to give people concrete tools they can use between sessions. Therapy can include skill practice, tracking patterns, and focused processing of past events.

She has worked with people affected by addiction and with those who care for someone with chronic illness or high needs. She also supports people dealing with codependency, abandonment issues, attachment concerns, and related communication or control difficulties. Her style is straightforward and focused on identifying manageable steps.

To begin, she asks clients to describe the immediate problems and goals. From there she and the client shape a plan of short- and longer-term work. Sessions aim to increase day-to-day coping and to create clearer boundaries and more reliable routines.

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