About Stephen
Stephen Chop is a licensed clinician based in Maryland who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trouble with self-esteem. He works with adults facing career pressure, addictions, grief, trauma, and big life changes. He brings 30 years of practice to each appointment and uses straightforward methods to address real problems.
In sessions he focuses on what is going on now and what practical steps can help. He listens closely and helps people name their priorities and set achievable goals.
Background and approach
People can expect coaching on coping skills, guidance for handling workplace or parenting stress, and support when mood or behavior become overwhelming. His work draws from several common therapy approaches, including cognitive behavioral ideas and acceptance-based strategies. He also uses client-centered methods to keep the conversation rooted in each person’s experience.
That mix is used to build skills for managing panic, chronic worry, and strong emotions like anger. Stephen describes his style as direct but compassionate. He helps people build routines, try small experiments, and practice skills between sessions.
He also addresses relationship strain, family problems, and the lasting effects of trauma or loss. With a background as MD and as both LCSW-C and LCSW, he combines medical perspective and social work practice. That range shapes how he looks at mood disorders, ADHD, and issues like compassion fatigue or caregiver stress.
His aim is to help people move toward clearer choices and steadier days.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and learning to accept difficult thoughts while taking actions that matter. It can help with persistent anxiety, stress, and making meaningful life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks down unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to reduce panic, worry, and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person in the room, using empathic listening to help people feel understood and find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as sessions progress.
Online options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video works well for longer conversations and skill coaching, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat can support quick check-ins or short practice between meetings. These formats increase flexibility and help people stay consistent with care while balancing work, family, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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