Stacie Story , LPC

Stacie Story is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with 30 years of experience guiding people through complex emotional and relational challenges. Her practice emphasizes practical strategies and compassionate support for individuals facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions, as well as relationship and family concerns such as communication breakdowns and parenting difficulties.

Stacie integrates a faith-informed perspective while remaining focused on each person’s unique goals, offering particular expertise in women’s issues, aging and geriatric concerns, caregiver stress, and family-of-origin patterns. She also works with clients coping with grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, addictions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and the stresses of career and life purpose decisions.

Drawing on decades of clinical work, Stacie cultivates a supportive environment where clients can explore self-esteem, strengthen communication skills, and develop coping tools for everyday challenges. Her LPC credential indicates professional training and state licensure to provide mental health counseling, and she approaches each case with a balance of evidence-informed methods and empathetic listening.

Through collaborative care, Stacie helps people move from isolation and overwhelm toward clearer direction, improved relationships, and renewed confidence in managing life’s changes.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with a South Carolina LPC

Stacie draws from client-centered therapy to place the person's experience at the center of treatment, offering a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients explore values, goals, and emotions and build self-understanding and confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and develop practical skills to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress through goal-focused exercises and behavioral changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful for managing intense emotions, relationship conflicts, and coping under pressure.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Stacie works collaboratively with each client to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques over time to support progress and resilience.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for scheduling and access from home or work. These formats make it easier to maintain consistent care during busy seasons of life, to connect when travel or mobility are factors, and to integrate therapy into day-to-day routines while working toward meaningful change.