About Stephen
Stephen Clifton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction concerns, and major life changes. He speaks English and works with adults who want to better understand themselves and gain tools to move forward.
Stephen takes a straightforward, person-centered approach. Sessions are conversational and focus on what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
He aims to help people notice patterns that cause distress and to build practical skills for coping and decision making. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to break down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into manageable steps. He also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a calm, accepting space where a person can explore feelings at their own pace.
Existential ideas are used when clients want to look at meaning, values, and life direction. Stephen has worked with a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and fatherhood questions, sleep problems, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue. He also addresses attachment and abandonment themes, codependency, dissociation, and substance use challenges.
Sessions may include practical exercises, thought tracking, and focused conversation about choices and values. The aim is to help people leave sessions with clearer next steps and techniques they can try between meetings.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Work
Stephen uses Client-Centered Therapy to create an accepting space where clients can speak openly and feel heard. This approach focuses on following the client's lead and supporting their capacity to make choices and changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and routines and to build practical strategies for managing anxiety, mood, and behavior. Existential Therapy helps people examine values, purpose, and life direction when those questions feel central to their distress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress and needs change.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions where visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer quick, flexible ways to check in between appointments or for people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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