Staci Makela-Kerr, LPC Associate | Grief & Burnout Therapy in San Antonio

Staci Makela-Kerr, LPC Associate

Texas LPC Associate License #: 92124 • Verify License

NPI #: 1093646093

Supervised by Elizabeth Oldham, LPC-S

Support for the People Who Are Used to Holding Everything Together

You may look like you are managing on the outside while quietly feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, numb, irritable, or disconnected underneath. Grief, trauma, caregiving stress, chronic illness, relationship strain, burnout, and major life changes can take a toll when you have been carrying too much for too long.

Staci offers a calm, grounded, and supportive space for adults, older adults, couples, and families to slow down, feel heard, and begin making sense of what feels heavy.

With a background in hospice care and years of supporting people through vulnerable seasons of life, Staci brings a compassionate and deeply human approach to therapy. Her work helps clients process grief, emotional exhaustion, trauma, relationship stress, caregiver stress, and life transitions while building healthier coping tools, communication, resilience, and a greater sense of grounding.

Staci May Be a Good Fit If You Are…

Therapy with Staci is especially supportive for adults and older adults who are emotionally exhausted from carrying too much for too long and want a grounded, compassionate space to process what feels heavy.

Used to Being the Strong One

You are often the one supporting everyone else while quietly feeling overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or disconnected underneath.

Navigating Grief or Loss

Support for bereavement, anticipatory grief, loneliness, complicated loss, caregiving stress, and adjusting to life after major changes.

Emotionally Exhausted or Burned Out

Help for chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, anxiety, numbness, and burnout. Learn more about our Burnout Therapy services for additional support and resources.

Caring for Everyone Except Yourself

Support for caregivers, helpers, parents, healthcare workers, and people who struggle to slow down or prioritize their own emotional needs.

Facing Life or Identity Changes

Therapy for relationship changes, retirement, aging concerns, chronic illness, family stress, shifting roles, and major life transitions.

Wanting Therapy That Feels Human

A calm, supportive, and collaborative space where you can process emotions openly without feeling judged, rushed, or pressured.

Staci Makela-Kerr, LPC Associate, counselor for grief, burnout, caregiving stress, and emotional exhaustion in San Antonio

What You Can Expect

Therapy with Staci is supportive, grounded, and centered around real conversations. Sessions are designed to help you slow down, process what feels emotionally heavy, and better understand the stress, grief, burnout, relationship strain, or life transitions affecting you underneath the surface.

Many of Staci’s clients are used to holding everything together for everyone else while quietly feeling overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, disconnected, or unlike themselves. Therapy becomes a space where you no longer have to carry everything alone.

With warmth, compassion, and practical support, Staci helps clients process difficult experiences, strengthen coping skills, improve emotional awareness and communication, and heal from experiences connected to trauma, loss, caregiving stress, and emotional exhaustion without judgment or pressure.

You do not have to wait until you completely fall apart before allowing yourself support, care, and space to heal.

New to Counseling?

You’re Not Alone.

Many of Staci’s clients are trying counseling for the first time. Her approach is warm, conversational, and person-centered, so therapy can feel less intimidating and more like a meaningful conversation with someone who genuinely wants to understand your story.

You don’t need the right words

You can start with what feels hard, confusing, heavy, or simply unresolved.

You don’t need a crisis

Therapy can help with grief, retirement, caregiving, anxiety, life transitions, or feeling disconnected from yourself.

You can move at your own pace

Staci helps create space to slow down, breathe, and explore what you need next.

Therapy is not about becoming someone different. It can be a place to reconnect with who you are beyond the roles, responsibilities, and expectations you’ve carried.

Therapy Style

Therapy That Feels Supportive, Grounded, and Human

Staci’s approach to therapy is warm, collaborative, and emotionally attuned. She believes therapy should feel like a space where you can exhale a little, slow down, and talk honestly about what you have been carrying without fear of judgment or pressure.

Sessions are conversational while also helping clients build insight, emotional awareness, practical coping tools, and healthier ways of responding to stress, grief, burnout, and difficult life experiences.

Staci integrates trauma-informed care, supportive reflection, emotional processing, and practical skill-building while tailoring therapy to each client’s unique needs, pace, and goals.

Her goal is to help clients feel emotionally supported while also creating meaningful and sustainable change in everyday life.

You Don’t Have to Keep Carrying Everything Alone

When you have spent so much time being strong for everyone else, it can be difficult to recognize how emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, disconnected, or burned out you have become underneath the surface.

Whether you are navigating grief, caregiving stress, chronic illness, relationship strain, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, or major life transitions, therapy can become a space where you finally have room to slow down, process what feels heavy, and receive support too.

Staci offers compassionate and grounded counseling for adults and older adults who want therapy that feels supportive, collaborative, emotionally safe, and deeply human.

Schedule Your First Session Verify Insurance

Questions about insurance, scheduling, or whether Staci is the right fit? Our team is happy to help you explore your options before getting started.

A Little About Staci

Before becoming a therapist, Staci spent over 15 years working in hospice care supporting individuals and families through some of life’s most emotionally vulnerable moments. That experience shaped the grounded, compassionate, and deeply human approach she brings into the therapy room today.

Clients often describe Staci as calming, supportive, genuine, and easy to talk to. She creates a space where people can slow down, feel emotionally safe, and talk openly about what they have been carrying without feeling judged, rushed, or pressured to “have it all together.”

Therapy with Staci is designed to feel supportive, steady, collaborative, and emotionally grounding — especially for people who have spent a long time carrying stress, grief, caregiving responsibilities, or emotional pain on their own.

Additional Support

Explore More Counseling Services

Clients working with Staci often benefit from additional support and resources related to grief, trauma, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and life transitions.

Grief Counseling

Support for grief, loss, bereavement, anticipatory grief, and emotionally difficult life transitions.

Anxiety Therapy

Counseling for chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, racing thoughts, burnout, and anxiety.

Trauma Therapy

Trauma-informed support for difficult experiences, emotional exhaustion, and nervous system stress.

Meet Our Therapists

Explore our counseling team and find the therapist who feels like the right fit for your needs.

Frequently Asked Questions About Therapy With Staci

That's completely okay. Many of Staci's clients are attending counseling for the first time. You do not need to know exactly what to say or have everything figured out before your first session. Staci's warm, conversational approach helps create a comfortable space where you can start wherever you are and move at a pace that feels manageable.

Therapy with Staci is warm, grounded, and collaborative. Sessions create space to slow down, process what feels heavy, strengthen coping tools, and feel supported without judgment or pressure.

No problem. Finding the right therapist matters, and your first session is an opportunity to get to know Staci's approach, ask questions, and decide whether working together feels comfortable. If another therapist on our team may be a better fit for your needs, goals, or preferences, we'll help guide you toward support that feels right for you.

Yes. Many people seek therapy when they appear to be functioning on the outside but feel depleted, overwhelmed, disconnected, irritable, or emotionally exhausted underneath.

Yes. Staci works with clients who feel emotionally exhausted from caring for others, carrying responsibility, managing chronic stress, or feeling like they have had to stay strong for everyone around them.

Yes. Staci supports adults and older adults navigating grief, bereavement, anticipatory grief, caregiver grief, end-of-life concerns, and the emotional impact of major losses and life changes.

Yes. Staci supports older adults navigating grief, retirement, aging concerns, health changes, caregiving stress, loneliness, family changes, and meaningful life transitions.

Yes. Staci offers counseling support for clients in San Antonio and virtual therapy for clients located anywhere in Texas.

What Happens Next?

Starting Counseling With Staci

Reaching out for support can feel like a big step, especially if you've never been to counseling before. Here's what the process typically looks like after you contact our office.

Contact Our Office

Reach out by phone, text, or our contact form. Our team will answer questions, review availability, and help you get started.

Verify Insurance & Schedule

We'll help review insurance benefits whenever possible and match you with an appointment time that works for your schedule.

Meet With Staci

Your first session is an opportunity to talk about what's been bringing you to counseling, ask questions, and get a feel for Staci's warm, conversational approach.

Move Forward At Your Own Pace

There is no pressure to have everything figured out. Together, you'll determine what feels most important to explore while creating space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with yourself.

If you're new to counseling, that's okay. Many of Staci's clients are attending therapy for the first time and appreciate having a supportive, nonjudgmental space to start where they are.

You Deserve Support Too

Many of Staci's clients have spent years caring for others, carrying responsibilities, and putting their own needs last. Therapy offers a supportive place to slow down, feel heard, and reconnect with yourself during life's difficult transitions.