Stacy Jo Poffenbarger, LMHC

Florida · 17 years in practice

Stacy Jo Poffenbarger is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 17 years of experience.

License and registration

LMHC, Florida: MH23273 · expires March 2027
NPI: 1336547546 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 17
Languages: English

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About Stacy

Stacy Jo Poffenbarger is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, addiction concerns, and other life disruptions. Her style is practical and respectful, and she aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person's needs.

She uses a mix of approaches to meet moment-to-moment needs. Systemic ideas guide how she looks at relationships and patterns in a person’s life.

Background and approach

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing strong emotions. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be part of work with trauma.

Mindfulness techniques support grounding and present-moment awareness. Stacy has supported caregivers dealing with compassion fatigue and people coping with illness or chronic pain. She has experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, and with people who face co-occurring problems such as substance use and mood differences.

She also addresses communication problems, control issues, and the strain around parenting or family conflict. Her work emphasizes clear goals, skill-building, and listening. Sessions focus on what is practical for daily life, from managing stress to improving motivation and confidence.

She stays current with new ideas and adapts plans as needs change. Stacy invites people to take a first step and offers steady support through change. She aims to help clients find clearer ways to cope and move toward the life they want.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Stacy lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Addictions
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Self esteem
Coping with life changes
Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Eating disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Aging and geriatric issues
Antisocial personality
Attachment issues
Avoidant personality
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dependent personality
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Men's issues
Midlife crisis
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Money and financial issues
Mood disorders
Narcissism
Personality disorders
Post-traumatic stress
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-love
Sexual assault and abuse
Workplace issues

Approaches Stacy names

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Online support

How Stacy blends approaches for online care

Stacy often combines Systemic Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at patterns and practical habits. Systemic ideas help identify how relationships and recurring dynamics affect a person's stress and choices. CBT targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete steps to change them.

She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. DBT provides clear skills for managing intense feelings and improving moment-to-moment coping. Together these approaches are used collaboratively so the therapist and client decide what best fits the presenting concerns and goals.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or health needs while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Stacy address?

She helps people with stress, anxiety, grief, addiction issues, self-esteem, parenting strain, relationship and family conflict, bipolar conditions, ADHD, and related challenges.

What is Stacy's therapeutic style?

Her style is practical and respectful, focusing on skills, clear goals, and tailored conversation to meet each person's needs.

How much experience does she have?

She has 17 years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns and life challenges.

What credentials and region apply to her practice?

She is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - practicing in Florida.

Which languages are supported and are international clients seen?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online therapy.

How are costs handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

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