About Stephen
Stephen Drozda is a Colorado-based psychologist with nearly five decades of experience in mental health. He focuses on common and complex concerns like anxiety, depression, relationship and family struggles, grief, trauma, addiction, and ADHD. He brings a practical, problem-solving attitude to sessions and aims to help people take manageable steps toward clearer goals.
Dr. Drozda earned graduate degrees in psychology, including a Ph.D., from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has worked in many settings such as outpatient clinics, hospitals, residential treatment centers, nursing facilities, and independent practice.
Background and approach
That range of experience informs how he adapts treatment to different life situations. His clinical work emphasizes cognitive-behavioral methods and solution-focused strategies. He also uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy when they fit a person's needs.
In sessions he tends to be active and direct, helping people build concrete skills and plans they can use between meetings. Sessions are most often held by video or phone, and he also responds to messages between appointments. Dr.
Drozda aims to help people cope with life changes such as health shifts, loss, aging, career transitions, and caregiving stress by breaking problems into workable steps. Outside of practice he lives near Denver and enjoys travel, outdoor activities, music, and theater. He is married and has two children who work in the performing arts.
Online approaches that aim for clear change
He commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and shift behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and many everyday struggles where small changes produce relief.He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. DBT strategies can be helpful when strong emotions or relationship patterns make progress difficult.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their goals, preferences, and what works in practice. That way the plan can be adjusted if something isn’t a good fit.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people have face-to-face conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 49 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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