Stacey Sugar, LCPC, LPCC

Stacey Sugar is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, practicing in California with 14 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, grief, trauma, addiction, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem. Sessions focus on understanding patterns and making practical changes to daily life.

Stacey emphasizes how personal history shapes current behavior and relationships. She helps people notice repeated patterns - like attachment or control issues - and consider different ways of responding. The work often looks at how early family dynamics inform present struggles with trust, commitment, and communication.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she pays attention to relationship patterns, listens without judgment, and helps people test new behaviors that change thoughts and feelings. Hypnotherapy and existential perspectives are used when they fit a person’s goals.

In practical sessions she looks for small shifts that make everyday life easier. Parents or adult children worried about family conflict or separation can expect focused conversations and tools to try between meetings. She also works with people dealing with shame, abandonment, or isolation and helps them rebuild a sense of agency.

Stacey asks questions that prompt new insight and practices that build different habits. Sessions combine reflection with straightforward skills for coping and communication. People leave with both clearer understanding and steps they can use the same week.

How attachment, client-centered work, and CBT translate to online sessions