About Steven
Steven Murray is a licensed social worker who brings five decades of experience to his practice. He works from Michigan and speaks English. He describes therapy as a practical, down-to-earth process and aims to help people make steady progress on the problems they bring to sessions.
He helps with common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. He also supports people facing trauma and abuse, addiction, sleep problems, anger, bipolar mood issues, and challenges related to parenting and intimacy.
Background and approach
ADHD is listed among his focus areas and he helps clients address attention and executive-function challenges alongside other concerns. Steven uses a cognitive behavioral orientation along with acceptance and commitment ideas and attachment-based perspectives. He combines straightforward coaching, encouragement, and practical strategies in sessions.
He often offers concrete tools to manage symptoms and to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. He values humor and everyday activities that support wellbeing, like music, walks, and reading. His background includes long experience in hospitals, clinics, schools, and group homes, so he is comfortable with a wide range of life stories and challenges.
People who prefer direct feedback and an active, problem-solving approach may find his style useful. He aims to work collaboratively, helping each person set realistic goals and build on small successes along the way.
Practical approaches for online sessions
Steven commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people manage upsetting thoughts and change patterns that get in the way of daily life. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce distress. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice difficult feelings, clarify what matters most, and take steps toward those values even when emotions are uncomfortable.He also integrates attachment-based ideas to improve how people relate to others and reduce repeating patterns that harm relationships. Together these approaches offer both skills work and values-guided action to address issues like anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and attention-related concerns. Choosing the right mix is a collaborative process - he will discuss goals and preferences and adjust methods to fit what each person needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill practice, phone works when bandwidth is limited, brief check-ins fit well by text or chat, and messaging can keep momentum between full sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep regular contact while working on real goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 50 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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