About Stephen
Stephen Burke is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with two decades of practice. He helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, trauma, or career changes. He is based in New Hampshire and offers straightforward, practical help.
Stephen keeps sessions interactive and non-judgmental. He asks what matters most to each person and works from there. Together clients set goals and build steps toward them.
Background and approach
He uses a client-centered stance, which means the person in therapy leads the priorities. Sessions are also solution-focused, so conversations move toward concrete next steps and changes. When trauma is part of the story, he brings trauma-focused methods to help reduce its hold on daily life.
Stephen has worked with issues connected to adoption and foster care, attachment and blended family dynamics, caregiving stress, grief, addiction, and intimacy-related problems. He also has experience supporting first responders, people facing divorce, and those managing compassion fatigue. In a session with Stephen, expect practical planning and clear options.
He blends coaching and therapy to improve everyday functioning. People who want help sorting priorities, managing anxiety, or repairing relationship patterns can find an organized, steady approach.
How his approaches work in online sessions
Stephen uses client-centered therapy to let the person set priorities and goals, then follows their lead as the main guide for treatment. This approach helps when someone needs space to sort values, parenting choices, or relationship priorities.He also uses solution-focused therapy to identify small, achievable steps and build on what already works. That method is useful for targeting anxiety, stress, and specific problems like communication or work-life balance.
Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. He will discuss approaches and adapt them based on your needs, goals, and preferences so therapy fits your situation. The plan is developed collaboratively, with regular check-ins to see what helps.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical options. Video calls let you use visual cues for conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief updates or reflections between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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