About Steven
Steven Taylor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and ADHD. He focuses on real-life problems like sleep struggles, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, and career stress. Steven aims to make the first steps feel less overwhelming for someone worried and unsure where to start.
Steven listens without judgment and adapts the conversation to each person's needs. He uses practical strategies and straightforward language so sessions feel useful from the start.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a calm, respectful approach that emphasizes strengths and next steps. He draws on several therapeutic methods to help people change unhelpful habits and cope with strong emotions. Techniques from cognitive behavioral work help identify thinking patterns that get in the way.
Mindfulness practices and skills from dialectical work support emotion regulation and stress management. For people processing trauma, he may use elements of EMDR alongside grounding and coping tools. He frames therapy as a collaborative process where goals and pacing are set together.
The plan is adjusted as needs change. With eight years of experience, Steven brings steady support to moments of crisis and gradual life changes. He works with concerns such as depression, bipolar challenges, compassion fatigue, and complex grief.
The focus is on clear steps you can try between sessions to build momentum. Sessions cover a wide range of topics - from parenting strain and blended family issues to chronic illness and caregiver stress. Steven offers a practical, person-centered path for people ready to make changes and regain control of everyday life.
Approaches you can explore in online sessions
Steven commonly uses client-centered work to prioritize each person’s priorities and pacing; this approach means the therapist listens closely and adapts sessions to what matters most to the client. It helps when someone needs practical, compassionate support and a plan that fits their life.He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change thought and behavior patterns that feed anxiety, low mood, or ADHD-related struggles. CBT offers concrete exercises to try between sessions, like behavior experiments and focused skill practice.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are another option for managing intense emotions and improving communication. These skills teach distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer ways to handle conflict and relationship stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then choose methods to match those needs. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked and priorities shift.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is low, short live chats can serve as quick check-ins, and messaging is handy for ongoing reminders or reflections between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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