Stacy Vitale, LMFT

Stacy Vitale brings a long-standing commitment to relationships and emotional healing to her work as a therapist. Drawn to the helping professions by an interest in how people connect and recover, she has built a practice centered on improving communication, strengthening family ties, and supporting personal growth. Her early clinical focus was working with underrepresented minority groups, providing services to children and adolescents at risk due to limited resources and offering crisis stabilization when needed.

Stacy is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) - a credential that reflects specialized training to work with individuals, couples, and families. She originally began practicing in 2000 and later took about 11 years away from clinical work to care for her own children. Becoming a first-time mother shaped her perspective on the unique mental health concerns of new parents and motivated her to pursue additional experience with perinatal mood disorders, including postpartum depression and anxiety.

More recently Stacy has focused on young adults navigating the transition to college, helping them address maladaptive internal patterns and interpersonal difficulties as they move into new stages of life. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to develop practical strategies for change. Her areas of specialty include stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, self-esteem, depression, parenting, and anger, along with related concerns such as isolation, life purpose, mood disorders, and self-love.

Stacy enjoys working with a wide age range, from teens and young adults through older adults, particularly those who seek hope and tangible change. As a parent, she also brings personal experience with the challenges families face, which informs her collaborative approach to therapy and her aim to support stronger connections and clearer communication within relationships.