Stacia Gilstrap, LPC

Missouri · 5 years in practice

Stacia Gilstrap is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and LGBT concerns.

License and registration

LPC, Missouri: 2020029054 · expires June 2027
NPI: 1669083796 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 5
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Stacia

Stacia Gilstrap is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and LGBT concerns. She also supports those dealing with sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, and life transitions. Stacia uses straightforward, respectful conversation to help clients find practical next steps.

Her approach centers on understanding what matters to each person. She listens for values, patterns, and the things that get in the way of living the life someone wants.

Background and approach

Sessions are collaborative and paced to match an individual's needs and comfort. Stacia draws on Existential therapy to help people examine meaning, choice, and responsibility in their lives. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed ideas to address how relationships and internal struggles affect wellbeing.

Cognitive behavioral techniques are used when it helps to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. She keeps therapy grounded and direct. Conversations focus on clear goals, small experiments, and coping skills that can be practiced between sessions.

Stacia pays attention to emotions and life context while offering concrete tools for day-to-day challenges. People come to her for help with a wide range of issues including OCD symptoms, panic, ADHD-related struggles, caregiving stress, and questions about life purpose. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can make steady progress toward their goals.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Stacia lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
LGBT
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Depression
Eating disorders
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Attachment issues
Body image
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Codependency
Communication problems
Control issues
Guilt and shame
Impulsivity
Life purpose
Money and financial issues
Mood disorders
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Prejudice and discrimination
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Self-love
Sexuality
Smoking / vaping cessation
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Stacia names

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Online support

Approaches online that focus on meaning and action

Existential therapy helps people look at big life questions like meaning, choice, and responsibility. It can be useful for anyone wrestling with loss, life transitions, or questions about purpose and direction. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while committing to actions that match your values; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with difficult emotions.

Attachment-based ideas focus on how early and current relationships shape reactions and trust. This perspective can help when communication problems, abandonment concerns, or caregiving stress affect day-to-day life. Stacia uses these approaches together with practical techniques so the work fits each person's goals and preferences. Finding the right mix is part of the process and happens collaboratively during the first sessions and as therapy continues.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper exchange, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat can offer a quicker check-in, and texting supports ongoing brief coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while trying different ways of working to see what feels most effective.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does Stacia address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, LGBT issues, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and related concerns.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Sessions are collaborative and values-focused. Stacia combines reflective listening with practical tools and small experiments to help people make changes between sessions.

How much experience does she have?

Stacia has five years of professional counseling experience working with a variety of concerns and life transitions.

What credentials and location are on record?

She holds the LPC credential and practices in Missouri as a Licensed Professional Counselor.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Sessions may be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preference.

How is cost handled for therapy?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with Stacia?

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