Stacey Sugar, LCPC, LPCC

Stacey Sugar is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Maryland and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in California with 14 years of experience. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and depression.

Stacey frames therapy around how people form attachments and the stories they tell about themselves. She uses attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive tools, existential questions, and hypnotherapy to help people notice patterns. Sessions focus on identifying automatic reactions, understanding what drives them, and trying different responses in everyday life.

She often helps people untangle family of origin issues, codependency, commitment and communication problems, and control or impulsivity concerns. Stacey also works with people dealing with abandonment, body image worries, guilt and shame, isolation, and first responder stress. She encourages looking at how past relationships shape current reactions.

In practice she emphasizes practical steps alongside reflection. That can mean learning new coping skills, practicing different ways to communicate, or using hypnotherapy to access deeper material. Conversations are straightforward and paced to what the person can handle.

Stacey asks clients to notice small shifts and brings these observations back into sessions. Over time the focus is on clearer emotional awareness, fewer impulsive reactions, and better choices in relationships and work. People who want to address anger, attachment patterns, or repeated relationship conflicts may find this approach useful.

How her approaches translate to online work