Stacey Merrell

Stacey Merrell is a compassionate, direct, and interactive therapist who specializes in helping adults navigate a range of mental health challenges. With a background as a Marriage & Family Therapist (MA, LMFT), she adopts a therapeutic approach that focuses on offering support and practical feedback to help her clients effectively achieve their treatment goals. Stacey believes in a highly personalized approach, customized to meet each client's unique needs, asserting that the person is not the problem; rather, the problem is the problem. She collaborates with her clients to help them move away from problem-saturated narratives, guiding them toward discovering and creating new, empowering stories that encompass their hopes, values, dreams, and relationships. Her areas of expertise include couples counseling, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Stacey employs a variety of therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness, and Narrative therapy, alongside being trained in Levels 1 & 2 of the Gottman Method. As the owner of Rancho Cucamonga Therapist, a group of dedicated mental health practitioners, she and her team provide individual, couples, family, and adolescent counseling services, with specialties that encompass depression, anxiety, trauma, and childhood challenges.