Stacey Langley , LISW

Stacey Langley is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) based in Iowa with nine years of experience providing therapy services. She previously worked as a behavioral health intervention specialist and as a domestic abuse advocate, roles that inform her focus on supporting individuals and families through challenging circumstances.

Stacey primarily works with people experiencing depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, and struggles with managing emotions, stress, or anger. Her counseling style is warm, interactive, and client centered, and she places strong value on the working relationship between client and therapist. Stacey views clients as the experts on their own lives and aims to offer support and empowerment while helping them build practical strategies and coping skills tailored to their situation.

She completed both her undergraduate and master of social work degrees at the University of South Dakota. Stacey draws on an integrated set of approaches, including trauma-focused methods, solution-focused techniques, and cognitive behavioral therapy, to match interventions to each person’s unique needs and goals.

How Stacey's therapeutic approaches work in online sessions

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and learning practical strategies to change them. It is often used for issues such as anxiety, depression, and stress-related challenges and aims to build skills that can be applied between sessions.

Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding the effects of past trauma and developing coping tools to reduce its ongoing impact. It supports processing difficult experiences and learning ways to manage emotional and physical responses tied to trauma.

Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes identifying strengths and small, achievable steps toward clients' goals. This approach helps people clarify what they want to change and build momentum through brief, goal-oriented interventions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Stacey works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions with licensed professionals can increase flexibility by offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity of care when life circumstances make in-person visits difficult.