Stacey Cohen

With over twenty years of experience as a therapist, I approach this work through a neurotype and nervous system lens rather than a deficit based model. I view autism, ADHD, sensory sensitivity, and empathic attunement as meaningful neurotypes with distinct wiring, needs, and strengths. Our work focuses on understanding your design and building a life that supports it.

I specialize in working with empaths, highly sensitive individuals, and neurodivergent adults who experience sensory overload, burnout, executive functioning challenges, and chronic overwhelm. I also support clients navigating depression, anxiety, grief and loss, trauma and PTSD, compassion fatigue, and major life transitions.

My background includes working with adult children of addicts and alcoholics, individuals active in 12 Step recovery, LGBTQ clients, spiritual seekers moving through existential questions, and creatives seeking clarity, direction, and renewed vitality.

I understand what it means to move through the world with depth, intensity, and awareness. Together we focus on nervous system regulation, practical tools, and meaningful integration so that your way of being becomes sustainable rather than exhausting.

My life’s work is the integration of personal growth, creativity, spirituality, and nervous system wellness into a grounded and practical therapeutic process. I believe healing happens when insight, embodiment, and lived experience come into alignment.

My approach blends traditional talk therapy with coaching, Internal Family Systems, and Solution Focused therapy. I integrate art and expressive modalities, Emotional Freedom Technique, mind body awareness, mindfulness practices, and nervous system regulation alongside Humanistic and Transpersonal psychology.

I work from a neurotype lens, which means we focus on understanding your wiring rather than pathologizing it. Together we explore how your nervous system responds to stress, creativity, intimacy, purpose, and overwhelm. From there, we build sustainable strategies that honor your design.

Our work may include parts exploration through Internal Family Systems, identifying strengths and forward movement through Solution Focused therapy, and developing practical executive functioning skills to support organization, follow through, and burnout recovery. I help translate insight into daily structure so growth feels embodied and actionable.

This process is collaborative and experiential. At times it may look like structured reflection and skill building. At other times it may include guided inquiry, somatic awareness, expressive art, or deeper existential exploration. The goal is not just symptom relief, but integration, coherence, and authentic living.

As the founder of The Center for Soulful Presence, my highest intention has always been to create a space that feels grounded, respectful, and attuned to your nervous system. The first session is not about fixing you or rushing into solutions. It is about understanding you.

In our initial meeting, we will explore what brings you in, what feels most pressing, and what you hope will shift. I will ask thoughtful questions to understand your history, your current stressors, and the patterns that may be contributing to overwhelm, burnout, or disconnection. You are welcome to move at a pace that feels manageable.

Clients who identify as empathic, highly sensitive, neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, creative, spiritually oriented, or non conforming often arrive carrying years of masking or feeling misunderstood. The first session is a place where you do not have to perform. You can speak freely, pause, reflect, or take time to find your words.

You can also expect clarity. I will share how I work, discuss possible directions for therapy, and collaborate with you on next steps. Whether our focus becomes nervous system regulation, parts work, executive functioning support, trauma integration, or life direction, we will build a plan that feels both supportive and practical.

Most importantly, you can expect to be met with steadiness, curiosity, and respect for your design.