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Steve Welton, LCPC - Illinois Therapist at Grow Therapy

Steve Welton

Steve Welton

(he/him)

LCPC
25 years of experience
Virtual

I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and have been working in the human services field for over 3 decades. Working with adults, I bring a range of life experiences, humanity, and mental health clinical experience to our work together. I work with you as a whole person to help gain context for your life experiences as we find a path toward healing and learn how to prepare for whatever comes next. My practice starts with kindness, with a willingness to challenge you to meet your goals.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

From the first session I work with you as a whole person to help gain context for your life experiences as we find a path toward healing and learn how to prepare for whatever comes next.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

I believe that everyone has the potential for growth and change, and that therapy can help unlock that potential. I am an empathetic listener who provides a safe and supportive environment where my clients can explore their thoughts and feelings without judgment, so they can move toward healing.

About Steve Welton

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Free consults, virtual

My treatment methods

Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

Much of how we perceive the world around us is seen through the lens of what we have learned to be our reality that can impede our capacity to experience happiness or freedom from anxiousness. I have been utilizing CBT as powerful approach in my work with clients. It offers specific tools to help the client understand the important link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and how you can manage problems by the way you think and behave.

Acceptance and commitment (ACT)

As a part of therapy, I utilize this mindfulness-based technique to help my clients stay focused on the present moment and accept thoughts and feelings without judgment. This approach helps the client move through difficult emotions to and move toward healing.

Attachment-based

For some of my clients, their thoughts, feelings, communication style, behaviors, and interpersonal styles are learned either to avoid or to amplify due to their experiences from their family of origin. The goal of this work is to assist the client in learning new ways to help alleviate dysfunctional emotions and behaviors undermining the individual.

Grief Therapy

A part of living life is the experience of loss - the passing of a partner, child, or parent; the loss of career; the end of a marriage or partnership; the loss of our health; or our own childhood. The incomplete recovery from the experience of grief can have significant effects on our capacity to move forward and experience the things ahead of us with happiness. My approach is to help you find your way through your grief to help you find the life that is on the other side of it.