Stacey Sugar , MD, LCPC, LPCC

Stacey Sugar brings 14 years of clinical experience to her work guiding people through stress, anxiety, relationship and family challenges, trauma, grief, addictions, and other life transitions. She frames therapy as an opportunity to rethink the story a person tells about their life, helping clients move from feeling like passive observers of their past toward actively shaping their future. By uncovering unconscious defenses and patterns, she supports deeper self-awareness and practical change that aligns with each individual’s values and goals.

Stacey combines evidence-based techniques with empathic, client-centered care to address issues such as attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, communication and intimacy problems, body image and self-esteem, career stress, and first responder challenges. Her approach helps clients explore emotions they may not yet recognize and translates insights into actionable steps for healthier relationships and greater emotional balance.

Credentials include MD, LCPC, and LPCC - MD indicates a medical doctor and the LCPC and LPCC denote licensed professional counseling credentials. Stacey meets people where they are, tailoring the pace and tools to each person’s needs and readiness for change. She emphasizes collaboration, offering a supportive setting to examine patterns, cultivate resilience, and work toward clearer, more fulfilling ways of living.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Stacey draws from attachment-based work to explore how early bonds and relationship patterns shape present-day responses. This approach helps people understand fears of abandonment, intimacy struggles, and how past relationships influence current ones. She also uses client-centered therapy, which prioritizes a compassionate, nonjudgmental stance that empowers clients to lead the pace and focus of sessions while the therapist offers reflection and support. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is another key tool - it focuses on identifying and adjusting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve coping skills.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Stacey partners with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting strategies over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy lives. Video calls and phone sessions allow real-time conversation that mirrors in-person work, while live chat and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection and check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to access care from home or other convenient locations and to integrate therapeutic work into everyday routines.