Stacey Sugar, LCPC, LPCC

Stacey Sugar is a licensed counselor who blends practical therapy with personal exploration. She helps people understand patterns that shape their choices and supports change at a pace that feels manageable. Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and addictions. Stacey brings 14 years of experience to conversations about grief, trauma, self-esteem, and life transitions.

Stacey uses approaches grounded in attachment and client-centered work to help people notice what matters most in their relationships. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot and shift unhelpful thought patterns. These methods are used to address things like codependency, communication problems, commitment concerns, and boundary setting.

Sessions emphasize clear, practical steps alongside deeper emotional exploration. Stacey helps people identify unconscious defenses and the stories that keep them stuck, then tests small changes to see what feels different. She invites curiosity about impulses, shame, and the ways past hurts show up now.

People looking to manage career pressure, first responder stress, or isolation find concrete tools and reflective work here. Stacey also supports those dealing with body image, abandonment wounds, and guilt. Her approach mixes short-term skills with longer-term reflection depending on each person’s goals.

Stacey is licensed in California as an LPCC and also holds an LCPC in Maryland. Sessions are conducted in English. To begin, a simple matching questionnaire helps connect people to scheduling and next steps.

How attachment work and CBT translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape expectations and behavior in current relationships. Online work can look at patterns in how people connect, explore attachment wounds, and try small changes in communication. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving. In remote sessions CBT can provide clear worksheets, experiments, and practice tasks to use between appointments.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Stacey will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. That may mean leaning more on attachment work for relationship issues or using CBT for anxiety and impulse control. The plan can shift as progress is made and as needs change.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, shorten commute time, and allow for quieter check-ins during a work break. Remote sessions also allow for practical homework review, real-time coaching for communication practice, and easier access to tools like worksheets or audio exercises between meetings.