Lacey Farrow

Lacey Farrow is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical tools that help people manage mood, anxiety, anger, and stress. Her approach centers on helping clients take small, steady steps toward clearer thinking and calmer days.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills. Mindfulness practices and trauma-focused work are also part of her sessions for those dealing with past hurts or high emotional reactivity. Lacey uses worksheets and hands-on exercises so lessons from sessions can be practiced between meetings.

Her background includes long-term work with people facing depression, sleep problems, substance issues, trauma, and life transitions. She also has experience supporting those dealing with hoarding, burnout, first responder stress, aging-related concerns, and neurocognitive decline. That breadth helps her tailor practical plans to different situations.

Lacey aims to help people reclaim resilience and act on goals that matter to them. She frames clients as experts on their own lives and focuses on building skills and confidence. Her style is direct and supportive, with an emphasis on concrete strategies that fit everyday life.

To begin, she asks clients to describe their main concerns and then prioritizes simple steps they can take. Sessions often include worksheets, mindfulness exercises, and behavioral tasks that make progress visible and manageable.

How CBT, DBT, and Mindfulness translate to online sessions

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It is often used to address anxiety, depression, anger, and sleep problems by teaching practical steps clients can try between sessions.

DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. These skills aim to reduce high emotional reactivity and impulsive behaviors and can be helpful for people managing intense anger or mood swings.

Mindfulness Therapy encourages present-moment awareness through simple exercises and breathing practices. It supports people who struggle with rumination, stress, and trauma-related symptoms by improving attention and calm over time.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals and comfort level, adjusting techniques as progress is made. Clients and the therapist review what helps and shift focus when needed.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can ease scheduling by fitting sessions into busy days, cutting travel time, and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it easier to practice skills in real life between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt worksheets, mindfulness exercises, and behavioral tasks for remote work to keep therapy practical and goal oriented.