About Stephen
Stephen Groce is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Indiana with ten years of experience in mental health and social services. He earned a BA in Psychology from Earlham College and a MS in Mental Health Counseling from Walden University. Stephen brings a down-to-earth style to sessions and aims to help people find practical ways forward.
He describes himself as flexible, caring, open-minded, and honest. Stephen has worked in residential treatment settings, acute psychiatric hospitals, and on wraparound care teams in community and home-based programs.
Background and approach
That varied background gives him experience with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, and mood concerns like depression and bipolar presentations. He also supports people facing parenting strains, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and relationship challenges. His approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral strategies and emotion-focused ideas.
Motivational interviewing and existential thinking also shape his work when clients want to clarify values or address big life questions. Stephen says he adapts methods to what each person needs to reach their goals. Stephen is a certified racial equity trainer and frames his work around respect for each person's story and goals.
He is grounded in faith but emphasizes openness to many perspectives. In sessions he focuses on identifying what works and building concrete strategies to move forward. People who want straightforward conversation and practical plans may find his style a good fit.
He conducts sessions in English and accepts international clients for online formats.
Approaches for online care and flexible formats
Stephen often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective so they can set their own goals and feel heard. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is another common strand in his work and involves identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. He will work with the individual to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and personal preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more convenient. Video calls are useful when you want face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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