New to Grow
I’m Steven, a Licensed Professional Counselor, and I have 7+ years of experience working with all ages of clientele. I specialize in helping in clients navigate through relationship stress, life adjustments, Divorce, and in dealing with all varieties of anxiety and depression. To do this, i use a combination of Person-Centered therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Solution Focused therapy to help clients try to build momentum towards reaching their goals and managing their everyday life and relationships in a more effective way.
After a session with me it is my hope that you feel safe, heard, and that you feel like you have more confidence in therapy being a support that will help you reach your goals. I hope to be able to help you build momentum towards believing that achieving your goals is obtainable and that therapy can be a useful tool in helping you meet those goals.
It's always awkward to talk about your greatest strengths. I would say generally that clients have given feedback on my ability to be authentic, to be flexible in my approach, and being transparent in stating my strategy of how I think I can best help them in reaching their goals. Clients have also typically enjoyed my ability to be more structured in my approach in the first few sessions which makes it a little easier to be able to speak on topics that can be very hard to put words too.
My goal as a therapist is to help people reclaim their joy, restore their energy, and reconnect with their passions. My hope is to improve clients’ overall quality of life by walking alongside them in their journey to become the very best version of themselves. As a therapist, I work with clients through individual therapy, group therapy, and family/marriage therapy. My areas of passion and expertise include: Processing trauma Building long-lasting motivation to work toward goals Managing anxiety Improving mastery in skills, abilities, and hobbies Improving quality of relationships Supporting major life transitions Minimizing the effects of depression Strengthening thought control
Other specialties
I identify as
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I have been trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for 5 years plus and typically will use it for helping clients improve confidence in their ability to manage emotions, increase interpersonal relationships, and for thought control.
Person-centered (Rogerian)
The core truths of Person Centered therapy are rooted within every session to help client's feel validated, accepted, and unconditionally invested into to help build therapeutic rapport.