Stacey Polson, LPC

Stacey Polson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wyoming with 28 years of experience in counseling. She has worked extensively in school settings and community mental health, supporting adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions.

Stacey draws on client-centered therapy to keep the person’s perspective central. She listens for what matters most and follows the client’s lead while offering practical ways to break problems into steps. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques to help people understand patterns in close relationships and how emotions shape connection.

In sessions she often applies solution-focused ideas to set small, achievable goals. That means identifying what would be different after a few sessions and working toward those changes in concrete ways. She also uses elements of rational-emotive thinking to help clients notice how thoughts influence feelings and behavior.

Stacey’s background includes a bachelor’s degree in developmental psychology and a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Wyoming. Her experience includes many years as a middle school counselor as well as work with individuals, groups, and families outside schools.

People come to her for help with parenting stress, family conflict, divorce and separation, postpartum depression, aging and caregiver concerns, body image, chronic illness or pain, and issues around commitment and codependency. She focuses on clear, manageable steps clients can try between sessions.

To start, she asks clients to identify one or two priorities and then helps set realistic short-term goals. Sessions are practical, conversational, and aimed at making everyday life easier to manage.

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