Stacey Langley, LISW

Stacey Langley is a Licensed Independent Social Worker, LISW, practicing in Iowa with nine years of clinical experience. She works with people facing depression, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, stress, anger, and trauma and abuse.

Stacey previously worked as a behavioral health intervention specialist and as a domestic abuse advocate. That background shaped how she responds to safety concerns, crisis moments, and complex family situations. She also has undergraduate and master’s degrees in Social Work from the University of South Dakota.

In sessions she uses a client-centered stance. Stacey treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life and focuses on practical coping skills. She combines trauma-focused work with solution-focused and cognitive behavioral methods. That mix is used to help manage difficult emotions, reduce intense reactions, and build clearer problem-solving steps.

Common topics she addresses include grief, self-esteem, codependency, attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family issues, and caregiver stress. She also supports people handling life transitions - for example moving out, starting a new job, or coping with loss of routine.

Stacey aims to help clients get skills they can use between sessions. Meetings tend to include discussion of patterns, small experiments or practice tasks, and direct skill coaching. She frames progress as gradual and practical, focused on clearer communication and better daily coping.

If you are a young adult dealing with early-adulthood pressures like relationships, work stress, or feeling behind, Stacey’s background and approach are aimed at straightforward, skills-based support.

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