About Steven
Steven Gares is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, eating concerns, addictions, and ADHD. He keeps conversations straightforward and focuses on each person's strengths. He often starts by listening to what matters most to the client and then works with them to set practical goals.
With 12 years of experience, Steven draws on approaches that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused ideas, EMDR, and Jungian perspectives.
Background and approach
He explains options plainly and uses methods that fit the problem at hand rather than applying a single recipe to everyone. Sessions typically look like a mix of talking, skill building, and trying small changes between meetings. People who come to him for help with grief, relationship strain, or major life changes find a steady, goal-oriented partner.
He also supports those dealing with sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress. For concerns such as blended family issues, body image, codependency, or substance problems, he combines practical coping skills with attention to emotional patterns. Steven encourages clients to notice what works and to try new ways of handling old patterns.
He invites questions and adapts pace to each person's comfort. If someone wants an approach that emphasizes feelings, thoughts, or past events, he helps them choose the best fit. Starting therapy with Steven begins with a brief intake and a shared plan for next steps.
He aims to make sessions useful and manageable so progress can happen between meetings.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the client, helping people feel understood and guiding them to identify their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related routines. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and shift strong emotional patterns that affect relationships and personal wellbeing.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and past work so they can try the methods that fit best. That way sessions can move toward practical change while matching the client's pace.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can be a shorter check-in or a way to fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and flexible around work, school, or family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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