Lacey Payne, LCSW

Lacey Payne is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with four years of clinical experience, licensed in Kentucky and Indiana. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or life changes. Lacey also helps with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting strain, ADHD, and anger.

She approaches therapy as a collaborative process, treating the person as the expert in their own story. Sessions focus on identifying strengths and practical steps people can use between meetings. Lacey emphasizes clear, down-to-earth conversation rather than clinical jargon.

In early sessions she listens for what causes the most disruption day to day. She helps clients break big problems into smaller, manageable actions. That can mean learning ways to calm intense reactions, setting boundaries with others, or making a plan to address persistent stress at work or home.

Lacey draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide conversations and exercises. She encourages small experiments clients can try on their own to see what works. Progress is tracked in concrete ways so people can notice change.

People who come to Lacey often want help stopping patterns like snapping at a partner, building resentment, or feeling paralyzed by worry. She supports them in finding clearer thinking and steadier behavior. To get started she asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

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