Tracey Van Dyke, LPC

Tracey Van Dyke, LPC, NCC has offered counseling services to individuals, couples, and families since 2013 and brings 11 years of experience in the mental health field. She focuses on helping people move through difficult transitions and relationship challenges by combining practical skills with compassionate support. Tracey provides specialized approaches for affair recovery and betrayal trauma, and she integrates cognitive behavioral, solution-focused, and mindfulness techniques to help clients build new coping strategies and regain stability.

Her work emphasizes strength-based interventions that highlight clients' existing resources while guiding change at a sustainable pace. Tracey addresses a wide range of concerns including anxiety, co-dependency, depression, divorce, emotional growth, grief and loss, life transitions, mood disorders, parenting struggles, relationship challenges, spirituality, and work-related stress. She also offers customized anger management programs designed for both individuals and groups.

Tracey holds a Master’s degree and is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC, which indicates licensure to practice counseling. She is also a National Certified Counselor - NCC, reflecting a national certification in the counseling profession, and a Certified Anger Management Specialist, qualifying her to provide targeted anger management services. Her approach blends clinical skill with a respectful, client-focused stance to support meaningful change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Tracey uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps clients identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is often effective for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns because it teaches practical skills to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning.

She also draws on emotionally-focused therapy, a model that helps individuals and couples explore emotions and attachment patterns to strengthen connection and resolve relationship pain. EFT can be especially helpful for couples and for people coping with intimacy-related issues or attachment wounds.

When trauma is central to a person's difficulties, Tracey incorporates trauma-focused approaches that gently address traumatic memories and their ongoing effects, helping clients develop safety, regulation, and renewed agency.

Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Tracey works with each client to assess needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts methods so therapy aligns with what will be most helpful for that person.

Online sessions offer flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options allow clients to engage in therapy from familiar settings, fit sessions into busy schedules, and maintain continuity of care when in-person visits are not possible, while working with a licensed professional.