Stacia Gilstrap, LPC

Stacia Gilstrap is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. She also supports those navigating LGBT concerns, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and mood-related challenges. Stacia aims to meet clients where they are and offer steady, respectful support.

With five years of post-licensure clinical experience, she keeps therapy practical and focused. Sessions center on real-life skills people can use between meetings. Stacia listens closely and builds a plan that fits each person's day-to-day needs and goals.

She draws on several approaches to shape treatment, including cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based work, and client-centered methods. Those tools are used to identify unhelpful thinking, strengthen emotional coping, and improve relationships with self and others.

Stacia pays attention to patterns that show up around control, abandonment, and codependency. She also addresses issues such as body image, caregiver stress, panic attacks, and obsessive or compulsive behaviors. The focus is on clear steps forward rather than lengthy labels.

Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.

Approaches and online therapy that fit your life

Stacia often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so people can practice different responses and see concrete changes. She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help clients clarify values and take meaningful steps, even when strong feelings or discomfort are present.

Attachment-based methods are used when patterns from past relationships affect current life. This work looks at how people connect, feel safe, and respond to closeness, and it helps develop healthier ways of relating. Stacia treats approach selection as a team decision and will help each person choose methods that match their goals, needs, and daily realities.

Online therapy offers practical advantages for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions can be a more flexible option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging make brief check-ins or between-session support easier. These formats help fit therapy into busy days and make it simpler to try different approaches until the best fit is found.