STACY RODEN, LAC

“Helping couples and individuals move from stuck to connected—with honesty and heart.”

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If you feel disconnected from your partner or yourself, Stacy may help. You may also feel distant from your emotions right now. Stacy brings warmth and lively energy into sessions. She also creates space for deep and honest work. She works with individuals and couples. Stacy supports anxiety, depression, and communication struggles. She also helps clients address relational disconnection. Her approach focuses on emotional awareness first. She helps clients tune into their inner experience. She also supports shifting negative thought patterns. Over time, clients build more fulfilling relationships. You may feel stuck in emotional shutdown. You may also long for closeness and connection. In either case, Stacy offers a space for insight and movement. Meaningful change can begin there.

Stacy’s clinical presence feels warm and engaged. She listens with curiosity and steady attention. She reflects what matters with clarity and care. Clients often describe her as both light and deep. She can sit with hard emotions without heaviness. Her energy feels grounding yet playful. She tracks emotional undercurrents with skill. At the same time, she keeps sight of the big picture. She may help a couple slow down conflict. She may also help an individual untangle inner conflict. In each case, Stacy shows up with kindness and honesty. Her calm presence helps clients feel safe and seen.

For clients who desire it, Stacy offers Christian counseling. She approaches faith integration with humility and respect. Her own Christian faith grounds her work quietly. She understands how central faith can feel in healing. She also understands how faith can feel strained or painful. You may want to strengthen your walk with God. You may also want to process wounds from faith communities. In addition, you may want to view struggles through a biblical lens. Stacy walks alongside you with compassion and steadiness.

If you’re feeling disconnected—from your partner, your emotions, or even yourself—Stacy might be the right therapist for you. She is lively, warm, and refreshingly real—someone who brings energy and ease into the therapy room, while also creating space for deep, honest work. Stacy works with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, depression, communication challenges, and emotional or relational disconnection. Her approach is focused on helping clients tune into their emotional experience, understand and change negative thought patterns, and create more fulfilling relationships. Whether you’re stuck in emotional shutdown or longing to feel closer in your relationship, Stacy offers a space where insight, movement, and meaningful change can begin.

Stacy’s clinical presence is warm, engaged, and deeply attuned. She listens with genuine curiosity and reflects back what matters most with clarity and care. Clients often describe her as someone who brings both lightness and depth—able to sit with hard emotions without making the space feel heavy. Her energy is grounding but playful, and she brings a unique ability to track emotional undercurrents without losing sight of the big picture. Whether she’s helping a couple slow down and hear each other differently, or guiding an individual through layers of inner conflict, Stacy shows up with kindness, honesty, and a sense of calm that helps clients feel safe and seen.

For clients who want to incorporate faith into the therapy process, Stacy offers Christian counseling with depth, nonjudgement, and humility. As someone deeply rooted in her Christian faith, Stacy understands how central faith can be in the healing journey—and how painful it can be when that connection feels strained or uncertain. Whether you want to strengthen your walk with God, process wounds from faith communities, or simply make sense of your struggles through a Biblical lens, Stacy walks alongside you with compassion.

CLIENT DEMOGRAPHICS

Couples
Adults 18+

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Married Couples
Ministry Professionals

TOP SPECIALTIES

Anxiety
Healthy Boundaries
Releationships

OTHER FOCUS AREAS

Depression
Grief & Loss
Life Transitions
Emotional Dysregulation
Spiritual Wounding/Growth

THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES

EFT Emotion Focused Therapy
CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
DBT Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
TMT Trauma Model Therapy
IFS Internal Family Systems
EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
Attachment Theory
Somatic Psychology
Biblical Christian Counseling

FEES

$100/hr

OFFICE LOCATION

7522 N La Cholla Blvd Tucson, AZ 85741
Virtual/Telehealth

SCHEDULE

Wed 12-5 (telehealth only)
Thurs 9-5 (in person)

CREDENTIALS

LAC-20524 AZ Licensed Associate Counselor

EDUCATION

MA Master of Arts in Counseling

OTHER DETAILS

Under Clinical Supervision
of Rachel Neville, LPC

How Stacy Can Help

Stacy supports couples who feel stuck or distant. Many feel caught in painful communication loops. She uses Emotion Focused Therapy in her work. This approach helps partners move beyond surface arguments. It also helps uncover fear, longing, or grief underneath. With gentle guidance, she helps each person express needs clearly. She also helps them name vulnerable emotions safely. As a result, couples create new conversations. They also experience emotional repair and deeper connection. Her work fits couples ready to break old patterns. It also fits those longing to rediscover intimacy.

With individual clients, Stacy supports anxiety and depression. She also works with internal pressure to have it all together. She helps clients slow down intentionally. Then, she helps them notice emotions more clearly. She also encourages curiosity about emotional roots. Her style blends empathy with meaningful insight. Therefore, clients reconnect with emotional selves steadily. They move through stuck places without shame. Therapy with Stacy is not about quick fixes. Instead, it focuses on deeper and sustainable change. Clients learn to relate to themselves with compassion. They also build more honest relationships with others.

Stacy also works with what many call simple trauma. These experiences may not seem extreme outwardly. However, they can still leave lasting emotional impact. This may include a painful breakup. It may also include growing up where emotions felt unsafe. Some clients always felt pressure to be strong. These moments can shape self-worth and anxiety patterns. They can also affect relationship dynamics over time. For clients with anxiety or depression, Stacy may use EMDR. EMDR helps the brain process painful experiences. It also reduces emotional reactivity tied to the past. When it fits well, EMDR shifts how memories live in the body. As a result, clients respond with more freedom. If EMDR does not fit, that is okay. Stacy adjusts her approach to meet your needs. She tailors therapy to where you are today.

Stacy is especially gifted at helping clients who struggle to access or trust their emotions. Many of the individuals she works with feel anxious, disconnected, or like they’re constantly managing life rather than truly living it. With gentle curiosity and emotional precision, Stacy helps clients tune into what’s actually happening beneath the surface—whether it’s grief, anger, fear, or longing—and begin to relate to those emotions with more compassion and clarity. Her work often feels like peeling back layers, not to stir up pain for its own sake, but to make room for a deeper sense of presence, self-understanding, and peace.

If you’re carrying spiritual wounds or feeling unsure about where you stand with faith, Stacy creates space for that too. While she offers Christian counseling for clients who desire it, she understands that faith and trauma can become tangled—and that not everyone has had safe or healing experiences within the Church. As someone deeply rooted in her Christian faith, Stacy approaches these conversations with humility, care, and deep respect for each client’s story. Whether you’re grieving spiritual disconnection, questioning parts of your belief system, or healing from experiences of religious harm, she offers a nonjudgmental space to explore those layers at your own pace. You don’t have to believe a certain way to be welcome—you simply have to be human and willing to begin.

In both individual and couples work, Stacy emphasizes the importance of slowing down and truly listening—to yourself, to one another, and for those who desire it, to God. Often, anxiety and conflict are symptoms of something deeper that has gone unspoken or misunderstood. Through emotion-focused therapy, Stacy helps clients find the words, the feelings, and the courage to name those deeper truths and connect in more meaningful, emotionally honest ways. Whether you’re facing a relational crossroads, navigating depression, or longing to feel more alive and connected, Stacy offers a path toward change that is anchored in empathy, insight, and emotional depth.

Genuine

Relational

Calm

Playful

Insightful