About Stacy Jagger, LMFT, RPT-S, DMin
Founder & Clinical Director | AAMFT Approved Supervisor | Executive Family Coach
Dr. Stacy Jagger is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, Doctor of Ministry, AAMFT Approved Supervisor, Executive Family Coach, author, speaker, and advocate for children and families.
As founder and Clinical Director of Music City Family Therapy, Stacy leads and trains a team serving children, teens, adults, couples, and families.
For more than three decades, she has worked with children and families, including 15 years in private practice. She is known for helping people understand what is happening beneath anxiety, conflict, trauma, behavioral challenges, parenting struggles, and disconnection.
Her style is warm, direct, experiential, and deeply human–combining clinical depth with creativity, compassion, humor, and practical tools that translate into everyday life.
A Whole-Family Approach
Stacy believes the person showing the symptoms should not automatically be treated as the problem.
When a child, teen, adult, couple, or family is struggling, she looks beyond the symptom to the relationships, stressors, histories, and patterns surrounding it. Sometimes the work centers on one person. Sometimes meaningful change requires parents, partners, or other members of the family system to become part of the process.
Her guiding question is not simply:
“How do we stop this behavior?”
Rather it is:
“What is this person or family trying to communicate – and what needs to change for healing to become possible?”
Catalytic Family Therapy and The Mountain Method
Stacy is the developer of Catalytic Family Therapy™, an integrative, experiential, relationship-centered clinical model designed to help individuals, children, couples, and families identify and transform patterns that keep them stuck.
She also created The Mountain Method™, a practical framework that helps families carry change beyond the therapy room and into everyday life through greater connection, structure, regulation, and confidence.
These approaches also shape the culture of Music City Family Therapy, where Stacy trains and supervises clinicians to look beyond symptoms and understand the whole person within the relationships and systems surrounding them.
At the heart of both approaches is a simple belief:
Lasting change happens when insight becomes a new way of living and relating.
Author, Media Contributor & Advocate for Children
Stacy is the author of The 30-Day Blackout, created to help families reduce screen dependency and rediscover real-life connection.
She is a regular guest on Nashville television, including WSMV Channel 4 and WKRN News 2, where she brings a family therapist’s perspective to conversations about children, parenting, relationships, screen use, digital overload, and the challenges facing families today.
Her advocacy has also taken her beyond the therapy room and into public policy. Stacy has advocated for children’s online safety and healthier boundaries around technology, bringing her clinical perspective into conversations with lawmakers at the state and federal levels, including members of the Tennessee General Assembly and the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
She is also the founder of Advocate for the Creative Child, a nonprofit devoted to expanding children’s access to therapeutic support, creativity, music, movement, nature, connection, and the healing arts.
Known affectionately as Dr. Sassy, Stacy brings humor, storytelling, music, movement, and heart to her work with children, families, leaders, clinicians, schools, and audiences
The Story Behind the Mission
For Stacy, this work has never been simply a profession.
It is personal.
Raised in a home affected by alcoholism and instability, Stacy experienced 15 evictions by the time she left home at 16. She knows firsthand what it is like to be a child living inside circumstances she did not create and could not control.
But those beginnings did not become the end of her story.
They became part of her purpose.
“I became the woman I needed when I was a child.”
That conviction has shaped Stacy’s life’s work: helping families interrupt generational patterns, standing up for children whose voices may not yet be heard, and working to create a world where more children grow up feeling safe, seen, connected, creative, and deeply valued.
Today, she carries that mission into the therapy room, into her work with leaders and families, onto stages and television, into conversations with lawmakers, and through her advocacy for children.
A native Nashvillian, Stacy is also a wife and mother of four. Outside of work, she can usually be found with her family, writing, singing, spending time outdoors, or dancing–a lifelong love that began during her years as a ballroom dance instructor.
Everything she has built comes back to one conviction:
People can heal. Families can change. Generational patterns can be interrupted. And every child deserves the chance to become who they were created to be.
To follow Dr. Stacy’s work beyond the therapy room–including her speaking, books, podcast, media appearances, advocacy for children and families, and the growing Dr. Sassy mission–visit DrStacyJagger.com.
Advocating for Our Community
