Availability: Televideo & In-person

Monday-Wednesday 10-3:30 & Thursdays 10-2

Stacey is the owner and clinical director of Chugach Counseling. She is an EMDRIA Certified EMDR therapist & Consultant and the former president of the Alaska EMDR Network non-profit. She has been dedicated to helping adolescents and adults for the past 19 years and as a clinician for 12 years.  She specializes in working with teens 16+, young adults, and adults.  She works on issues such as anxiety, dissociation, depression, grief, anger, complex trauma, and relationship struggles. Stacey is passionate about serving first responders and the military community.

Stacey practices from a Somatic Process-oriented EMDR approach that is nonpathological and focused on establishing safety & building resilience. Stacey does this by helping you improve your window of tolerance to help navigate and improve relationships, make sense of past life events, reduce conflict, and develop a more focused mind. She believes in connecting how emotions, thoughts, and behaviors all influence one another. If you struggle to connect with your body or tend to intellectualize, you may find her approach very helpful.

She utilizes evidence-based, empirically validated, and Trauma-informed practices. Stacey has spent the last 8 years undergoing extensive advanced training & consultation in EMDR treatment of  Military, First-responder, anxiety/panic attacks, attachment disorders, eating disorders, OCD, substance use, birth trauma/pregnancy loss, depression, dissociative disorders, grief/loss/mourning, mood disorders, moral injury, personality disorders, phobias, self-harm, sexual abuse, stress management, suicidality, and survivors guilt.

Main modalities:

EMDR

Natural processing ( somatic process-oriented)

Parts Work-The Progressive Approach- Dolores Mosquera

Interpersonal Process

Emotionally Focused couples/family therapy

Also influenced by & trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy

Formerly, she worked with adolescents in an inpatient setting as the directing clinician of an adolescent residential treatment center for Alaska Native teens. In the lower 48 she worked as a crisis clinician responding to children, teens, and adults struggling with suicide, substance use, and psychiatric emergencies. She devoted her full focus to outpatient private practice therapy in 2017.

Stacey was born and raised in the lower 48.  After offered an opportunity via the Military, Alaska became home in 2016. In her free time, she enjoys hiking as many mountains as she can with her dogs, riding her horse Bandit, fat tire biking, and skiing.