Dr.Stacee

Stacee Reicherzer

Dr. Stacee Reicherzer is a licensed professional counselor-supervisor originally from San Antonio, TX, but who now resides in Chicago, IL. “Dr. Stacee,” serves as clinical faculty in the Counseling program at Southern New Hampshire University and is the author of The Healing Otherness Handbook: Overcome the Trauma of Identity-based Bullying and Find Power in Your Difference (April, 2021: New Harbinger Publications). Her website is: www.drstacee.com

  • Put the Naysayer to Bed: You Can Change the World

    Mar 04, 2012
    For some years now, I’ve been really attracted to an idea that began for me when, early in graduate school, I read “Being a Wounded Healer” by Douglas Smith. I appreciated the book for the fact that its emphasis was on how helping professionals, including counselors, use knowledge gained from our own experiences of pain to help others. A large part of the appeal was in my awareness that, like many of you, I came into this work to help make the world something different. I wanted to assure that the acute pain I had felt as “other” that was part and parcel of developing a transgender identity while growing up in South Texas would not be something others had to face.
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  • Surprising Myself in My Second Career as a Counselor

    Aug 04, 2011
    When I ran, screaming, from corporate America nine years ago, I swore that there were things I’d never want to see or do again. I wanted no part of organizational management- away with the flowcharts, spreadsheets, and silly buzzwords that we euphemistically used: “push-back” to refer to a major system of conflict between two people, for example. I envisioned becoming invested in the transgender liberation struggle as a counselor, working with clients to tackle significant problems in living directly.
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  • Our Families Revealed Through Our Counseling Lens

    Jul 12, 2011
    In the years since I entered my undergraduate studies in human services, through graduate school and into the present day, family stuff (italics added here for emphasis) has always been a fascinating thing to examine. Encountering counseling theories was like a treasure trove- “that’s so why she does that when my mother’s around!” and we won’t even talk about the riches the DSM revealed.
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  • From Caring Supporter to Scientific Reporter: Sharing Our Written Work with Clients and Research Participants

    Jun 29, 2011
    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve had the interesting experience of sharing with both clients and research participants articles that I’d written about them. Working in LGBT counseling agencies with beautifully unique client experiences, I’ve asked a few of my clients, as we were concluding the work, how they’d feel about having a description of our work shared with other professionals via a journal article. Within this, I include a lengthy description of confidentiality and how it would be maintained, the use of an alias, etc. They have all generously agreed to this. One of the things I appreciate the most about counseling in the LGBT community is the spirit of helping others that pervades.
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  • Taking Counseling to a Global Audience: Reflecting on my Conference in Glasgow

    Jun 22, 2011
    I really appreciate when I have the good fortune to stumble on a professional opportunity that blows my expectations out of the water. I tend to have high expectations, a trait that has had led to inevitable disappointments in life. I think that over the years, I have learned to curb a bit of that an approach things from a perspective that I’d like to think is more Zen-like.
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