Stacie Brethauer, LPC

Stacie Brethauer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 13 years of experience in mental health care. She focuses on simple, practical strategies that people can use right away. Stacie helps clients work through anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and major life transitions with warm and straightforward support.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered care, cognitive behavioral tools, emotionally-focused work, and mindfulness. She aims to make coping skills easy to apply in everyday life. Sessions center on what matters most to the client and on steps that lead to real change.

Stacie has assisted people dealing with stress, low self-esteem, addiction-related struggles, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses concerns such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, adoption and foster care questions, blended family issues, and fatherhood concerns. Her work includes support for parenting challenges, communication problems, and family-of-origin issues.

In conversations she focuses on sorting through problems, choosing useful strategies, and practicing new behaviors between sessions. Clients can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth style that emphasizes hope and achievable progress. Stacie frames therapy as a partnership where the client’s goals guide the work.

She practices in Pennsylvania and holds the LPC credential. Sessions are conducted in English. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to the therapist’s availability using the Start Therapy button.

How these therapy approaches translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes patterns of connection and how early relationships shape current reactions. Online sessions let clients talk through relationship patterns, practice new ways of relating, and reflect on attachment needs with the therapist’s guidance.

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client’s priorities and perspective. In remote sessions the therapist listens, mirrors concerns, and helps people find their own solutions at a comfortable pace.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Online work often includes reviewing thoughts, trying brief behavior experiments between sessions, and tracking progress together.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailor methods to fit the client. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made as needed.

Confirm the specific session formats before booking, as the biography does not list them. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, and letting people join from a quieter spot or during a break at work. Licensed professionals can adapt methods used in face-to-face care to an online setting so the focus stays on practical change and day-to-day coping.