ABOUT STACY MCCANN, LCSW

Support, from one mom to another

As a licensed therapist for moms, my job is to support my fellow mothers. But not just any mothers. -I support the moms sacrificing themselves to meet the needs of everyone else. -I support the moms who feel overwhelmed with rage every day at 6pm. -I support the moms that feel invisible in their own homes. -I support the moms that don’t care for themselves because the guilt eats them alive when they do. -I support the moms carrying the weight of the world on their backs.

And I support the moms that don’t have any support at all. Then I teach them to support themselves.

I launched my practice, Present Moment Counseling Services, in August 2022 as a response to the global pandemic. My daughter was just 10 months old when the world shut down, and after seeing moms everywhere crumble under the weight of not only the pandemic but the weight of the entire world, I knew I had to do something. Like many, many other mothers, the pandemic shifted my career and my home life, and I launched my practice in a response to that.

I have expertise in all of these phases but my sweet spot is millennial moms with young children at home. That’s where I really shine, because that’s me!

I have advanced training in:

• perinatal mental health from Postpartum Support International

• attachment parenting ages 0-6 as a certified Circle of Security facilitator

• the mental load and domestic labor as a certified Fair Play Method facilitator

• cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) from a trauma-informed lens

• theraplay and other play therapy techniques, mindfulness and somatic work, and family systems models

In addition to my private therapy practice, I also own Present Parent Coaching Services, where I provide private parent coaching with families worldwide. Parent support was my very first job as as a social worker, and I love that I can come back to my roots with my parenting practice. I support families with attachment-focused coaching in individual sessions or via my parenting intensives.

I’ve been in this field for 15 years, and I’ve worked with families of all shapes and sizes. I’ve supported mothers long before I became one, I’m just better at it now because I live it, and I get it!

Here’s the ancient history:

• 2004: I received a Bachelor of Communication Studies (focus on marketing and journalism) from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!).

• 2010: I received a Masters in Social Work from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan

• 2010: moved from Michigan to just outside St. Louis, in the metro east (Edwardsville, to be specific)

• 2013: I became licensed as a Clinical Social Worker and a licensed Board Certified Behavior Analyst

• 2013-2022: worked in local non-profits, private clinics, and schools as a child therapist, adult therapist, and parent educator/support

• 2022: launched Present Moment Counseling Services

• 2023: launched Present Parent Coaching Services

Here’s the personal:

I’m a millennial mom to a little girl, and our triangle family lives in the metro east, on the Illinois side of St. Louis. I love to travel, garden and preserve what we grow, cook (not Mac and cheese or chicken nuggets, yummy stuff), read, go for walks, drink wine on patios as an outdoor activity, sleep in without a child waking me up, and my goal is to get back to bike-riding…soon (ish).