About Stephen
Stephen Schottgen Jr is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of practice who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, and ADHD. He works with care and respect and adapts conversations to each person’s needs. He aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and affirms the courage it takes to begin.
Stephen tailors sessions to address whatever feels most pressing, whether that is coping with loss, managing panic, rebuilding confidence, or navigating relationship and life changes.
Background and approach
He draws on years of experience supporting people through substance and behavioral addictions, compassion fatigue, and occupational stress including first responder concerns. Clients can expect a practical, down-to-earth approach. Stephen helps people set small, concrete goals and talks through strategies to handle hard moments.
He pays attention to how emotions, behaviors, and daily routines interact and adjusts plans over time. His background includes licensing as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the region. That clinical foundation informs how he structures care, assesses progress, and revises goals with each person.
Stephen offers sessions in English and provides a range of online formats to fit different schedules. He encourages people to start with a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session that fits their availability. His practice is based in Alabama and reflects over a decade of community and clinical experience.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Stephen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping skills. One approach emphasizes structured problem solving and skill building to reduce anxiety and manage daily stress; it helps people break problems into steps and practice new habits. Another approach focuses on grief and loss, offering ways to name emotions, process painful events, and find meaningful routines after change.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to match techniques to your needs rather than applying a single method from the start.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for full-session conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth or camera time is limited, and chat or messaging can be helpful for shorter check-ins and steady support between sessions. These options allow more flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or irregular schedules.
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Alabama
- Languages
- English
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