About Stephen
Stephen Bunnell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Idaho. He has six years of clinical experience and helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, depression, grief, anger, and life transitions. He emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental approach and aims to draw out a person’s strengths and values to support practical change.
He focuses on building a strong therapeutic relationship that centers the client's point of view. Sessions tend to be direct and grounded, with attention to day-to-day coping and decision making.
Background and approach
Stephen encourages connecting to personal values, relationships, or sources of meaning as steps toward feeling steadier. Stephen uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs in the moment. He often works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and manage difficult thoughts.
He also incorporates client-centered techniques that prioritize listening and the client's agenda. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Narrative and existential ideas help people reframe difficult life stories and consider purpose or meaning after major changes.
These methods are woven together rather than applied as rigid rules. People who want practical tools and conversational, value-focused work may find his style helpful. He offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and guides each person toward the mix of strategies that fits their goals and day-to-day life.
How his approaches translate to online care
Stephen often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and move toward what matters to them. ACT focuses on identifying values and taking small actions that align with those values, which can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions.He also draws from Client-Centered Therapy, which prioritizes listening and following the client's lead. That approach supports people who need a calm space to talk through emotions and make decisions at their own pace.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when someone needs tools for managing intense emotions, handling conflict, or reducing impulsive behavior. DBT techniques can be practiced between sessions and applied to everyday situations.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support brief check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice new skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Utah, Washington, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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