About Dennis
Dennis Steelman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while addressing trauma, depression, self-esteem struggles, addiction, and anger. Dennis uses straightforward talk and practical steps to help people feel steadier and more in control.
Dennis believes the relationship between therapist and client matters. He listens first to understand where someone has been and what they want to change.
Background and approach
From that starting point he tailors an approach that meets each person’s needs rather than using the same method for everyone. He often uses cognitive strategies to help people see and test unhelpful thoughts. He also incorporates trauma-focused methods when past events continue to cause distress.
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps between visits. Dennis describes therapy as a process that takes time and effort. He helps people look at their history, understand how it affects the present, and make choices that change the future.
He offers a calm, direct style that aims to reduce overwhelm and build coping skills. People who contact him can expect plain language, steady pacing, and practical tools they can use between sessions. He works to create a plan that fits daily life and priorities, so progress can continue outside of therapy.
How CBT and EMDR can work online
CBT, or cognitive-behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, mood, and stress through short exercises and homework between sessions. EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, uses guided bilateral stimulation alongside memory processing to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories. It is commonly used when past events still cause strong emotional or physical reactions.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up before suggesting a path. Clients and the therapist make choices together and adjust methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from visual connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in more frequently, send short updates, or get brief coping ideas between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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