Stacey Langley

Stacey Langley is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) based in Iowa with nine years of clinical experience. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anger, anxiety, depression, or relationship and parenting challenges. Stacey aims to create a warm, interactive space where clients feel heard and understood.

Before becoming an LISW, Stacey worked as a behavioral health intervention specialist and as a domestic abuse advocate. Those roles shaped how she listens for safety concerns and practical needs. She draws on that background when supporting people through grief, trauma, and family conflict.

Her style is client-centered. Stacey treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life and helps them build skills that match their situation. She uses hands-on strategies to manage strong emotions, reduce stress, and improve day-to-day coping.

Therapy sessions often include elements from trauma-focused work, solution-focused techniques, and cognitive behavioral therapy, depending on what a client needs most. Stacey also uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how early connections influence current relationships and behavior.

People who choose Stacey can expect practical tools, straightforward conversations, and a focus on goals that matter to them. She supports a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, compassion fatigue, adoption and foster care issues, codependency, and life transitions.

Sessions are conducted in English and shaped around each person’s goals and pace.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current emotions and connections. It can help people understand patterns in close relationships and reduce reactive anger or avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns and manage anxiety or depression. Trauma-focused therapy addresses the impact of past harm in a gradual way, offering strategies to process difficult memories and reduce their hold on daily life.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That plan can change as work progresses and new priorities emerge.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm which session formats Stacey currently offers before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins from different locations. It can also make some types of focused skill practice and follow-up easier to schedule between in-person visits and helps people continue care during life transitions.