Stacey Brown
I help people reconnect with who they are beneath stress, trauma, and life transitions. Therapy with me focuses on resolving the experiences and patterns that can interfere with joy, clarity, and self-trust, while helping you move forward in ways that feel authentic and meaningful. Together, we work toward greater balance across mind, body, and nervous system while developing practical skills that support lasting change. My approach is integrative, interactive, and holistic, blending modern psychology with mind-body and wellness-based approaches. I draw from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Adlerian principles, neuroscience, developmental psychology, Brainspotting, mindfulness, meditation, yoga philosophy, Ayurveda, and other somatic and wellness practices. Rather than relying on a single method, I tailor therapy to the individual, combining practical tools, emotional processing, insight, and deeper healing.
Each treatment plan is tailored to the individual — combining practical tools, emotional healing, and insight so that therapy is both grounded and transformative.
With warmth, curiosity, and respect for your individual experience, we will work collaboratively to understand what has shaped you, resolve what may still be holding you back, strengthen resilience, and reconnect with a greater sense of steadiness, possibility, and joy.
First session
The first session is about creating safety, connection, and clarity. After introductions, I’ll invite you to share what’s bringing you to therapy, what has been happening in your life, and what you hope might be different. You don’t need to have everything figured out or know exactly where to begin — just start where you are. I’ll listen with compassion, curiosity, and clinical insight while asking questions that help us begin to understand the bigger picture. We’ll identify what feels most important to address and begin considering an approach that fits you, rather than trying to fit you into a particular model of therapy. My style is collaborative and interactive, so you can expect our work to include conversation, reflection, practical strategies, and opportunities for deeper exploration. Whenever possible, I want you to leave even the first session with greater understanding, a sense of direction, and something useful you can begin carrying into your everyday life.
Strengths
With more than 33 years of clinical experience, I bring depth, perspective, and an ability to see the bigger picture. I understand people through multiple lenses simultaneously — developmental history, psychology, relationships, thoughts and emotions, nervous-system functioning, the body, meaning, and lived experience — and consider how those pieces interact. This allows us to move beyond simply managing symptoms and explore what may be underneath them. Clients often appreciate my balance of warmth, curiosity, and directness. I’m an active and engaged therapist and educator who believes that insight is valuable, but meaningful change also requires finding ways to put that insight into practice. My approach combines clinical expertise and contemporary psychology with neuroscience, mind-body practices, ancient wisdom traditions, creativity, intuition, and education. I draw from these perspectives thoughtfully rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach, helping clients understand themselves more deeply, shift patterns and narratives that no longer serve them, and reconnect with their own capacity for resilience, growth, meaning, and joy.
Ideal clients
I work especially well with women, teens, and parents navigating life transitions. This includes midlife changes, motherhood, career shifts, marriage, divorce, trauma recovery, grief, relationship challenges, stress, burnout, retirement, recovery from trauma, family of relationship challenges, and questions of identity or purpose. I also support clients seeking wellness-focused therapy that integrates emotional healing, self-care, spirituality, and personal growth. My practice is a good fit for people who want both practical tools, resolution of root causes and deeper insight.
Treatment methods
Brainspotting
As a Nationally Certified Brainspotting Practitioner, I am trained and experienced in this special method of helping people process trauma. Ongoing training assures that I am continuously learning from Nationally Certified Brainspotting Practitioners, including the founder, Dr. David Grand. Getting to the root cause of the symptoms of trauma, anxiety, fear and depression can help resolve the issue on a somatic level. This means that the trauma can be integrated and released through the body. In practice, I am a co-creator with clients. We work together to learn this special technique, to identify activating events. We then utilize the brainspotting techniques to move toward a reduction of uncomfortable symptoms, improved insights and awareness and resolution of core issues. Learning about mindfulness based exercises such as breathing, somatic movements and meditation strategies further support the Brainspotting work.
Gottman method
As an experienced Level 2 Gottman method practitioner, I help couples find ways to connect, solve challenges and resolve longterm patterns of behavior based on the science based research of John Gottman. Receiving training from Julie and John Gottman in person years ago changed the way I work with couples for the better.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
As an experienced therapist, I integrate mindfulness based practices into my work with clients. I go beyond traditional talk therapy by including education and coaching related to expertise in nutrition, lifestyle and wellness strategies so that clients may learn how to manage their own unique balance of mind, body and spirit. Utilizing ancient traditions of yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, qigong, energy work, sound healing and more, combined with modern day science and best counseling practices offers a transpersonal, integrative, holistic experience that is unique. I am a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT500), a Certified Meditation Teacher, an Ayurvedic Yoga Practitioner, a Reiki Master Practitioner and a Certified Sound Healer.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a standard foundation for my counseling services. Examining the mind's thoughts allows us to restructure thinking that may be faulty, anxious or trauma induced to a more rational model. Specific behavioral and thinking strategies offered by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be integrated well with other modalities for wellness, self care and recovery of mindfulness based principles. As a Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, I have been trained by many specialists, including the founder of Rational Emotive Therapy, Albert Ellis and the founder of Reality Therapy, ,Dr. William Glasser.
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Virtual sessions
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- FloridaLicense MH4462
- South CarolinaLicense TLC 2823 PC