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Tracey Van Dyke, LPC

  • Experience11 years
  • LocationGeorgia
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Relationship, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Tracey

Tracey Van Dyke is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who combines Internal Family Systems with practical, evidence-informed techniques to help clients navigate emotional challenges.

Background and approach

With 11 years of experience in counseling and a background supporting individuals, couples, and families since 2013, she focuses on strengthening internal resources while addressing patterns that interfere with wellbeing. Her approach emphasizes collaboration, curiosity, and building resilience to manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship difficulties.

Tracey offers targeted support for a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, anger, intimacy-related issues, parenting and family problems, career and life transitions, and compassion fatigue.

She integrates client-centered principles with cognitive behavioral tools and solution-focused strategies to create individualized plans, and she also works with clients on abandonment and attachment issues, blended family dynamics, codependency, and communication challenges. Tracey provides structured anger management programs as well as assistance with affair recovery and betrayal trauma techniques when appropriate.

Based in Georgia, Tracey aims to cultivate a strengths-based, hopeful atmosphere that helps people move through change and develop practical skills for daily life. She communicates clearly about goals and progress and adapts methods to each person’s needs and preferences.

Integrating IFS and Practical Therapies for Online Care

Tracey often blends Internal Family Systems with client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques to address the whole person and their day-to-day functioning. Internal Family Systems helps people notice and relate to different parts of themselves with curiosity and compassion, which can be useful for trauma, inner conflict, and patterns that fuel anxiety. Client-centered work prioritizes the client's goals and lived experience, creating a collaborative space for growth and emotional exploration. Cognitive behavioral techniques provide concrete tools for identifying unhelpful thoughts and developing new coping strategies for mood, stress, and relationship concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and Tracey works together with each client to determine what combination of methods fits their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors interventions and adjusts pacing so the work feels manageable and aligned with the client's values and desired outcomes.

Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it possible to continue consistent therapy during life transitions, handle urgent emotional moments with shorter contacts, or choose the medium that best supports the therapeutic process.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she commonly address?
Tracey works with a broad set of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship conflicts, anger, depression, grief, intimacy-related problems, parenting and family concerns, career stresses, and compassion fatigue.
What therapeutic approaches guide her work?
Her practice draws on Internal Family Systems alongside client-centered, cognitive behavioral, emotionally-focused, and solution-focused methods to tailor treatment to individual needs.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has worked in the mental health field for 11 years and has provided therapy to individuals, couples, and families since 2013.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with the credential GA LPC LPC009967 and practices in Georgia.
Does she offer therapy in languages other than English or accept international clients?
Sessions are conducted in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How are fees and payment structured?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the process to begin working together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule appointments according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseAnger managementDepression

Also works with

Family conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommunication problemsControl issuesDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMulticultural concernsObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPhobiasPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Solution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

11+ years

Licensed

Georgia

Languages

English