About

Thank you so much for stopping!! My name is Stacy, and I am dually licensed in the great state of Texas. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor. I bring to you over 12 years of experience in mental health and addictive disorders. I have worked in many environments to include, residential treatment facilities, psychiatric hospital setting both PHP/IOP and Inpatient, SAFPF (Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Facility) men's unit, outpatient programs to include working with Department of Family and Protective Services (CPS), probation, parole, and TDCJ aftercare programs for therapeutic community continuity services, drug court programs in both Dallas County and Fannin County, TX. I have also worked with women in the jail diversion program and mental health diversion programs while training at Nexus Recovery Center of Dallas in Dallas, TX.

My approach to counseling is dependent on the needs of the client. I use Motivational Interviewing, Solution - Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Based Recovery, Mindfulness, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. I guess you could say that I am an eclectic counselor, I may use a combination of these interventions as we go through the therapeutic process.

I was educated at Texas A & M University - Commerce for both of my degrees. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice (2009) and a Master of Science in Community Counseling (2014). I was surrounded by many professors and professionals that taught me how to be a person of integrity, honor, reliability, and how to have very healthy and strong boundaries. My approach to counseling at times is just to have a conversation with you as one person to another, sometimes all of the fancy sounding interventions have to be thrown out. Some of my best sessions have been out on a hiking trail and playing basketball with a client in residential treatment.

Choosing treatment is not an easy thing to do, it takes courage from you to start, to even reach out. I am excited that you have decided to seek help. I am ready to take on clients and their needs, together you can find your strength and your own way to cope in a healthy manner and set healthy boundaries for you, your family, and at your job as well. I am looking forward to working with you and at this time I am open to taking new clients.

Thank you for taking the time to read a little about me and how I will help you out, take care, I look forward to meeting you!!!!