About Stephen
Stephen Sherokey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people cope with anxiety and other painful life issues. He offers straightforward support for depression, addictions, grief, career shifts, and stress. Stephen aims to make therapy practical and focused so clients can see steps forward.
He uses clear, goal-oriented conversations to identify problems and try options that fit everyday life. Sessions often focus on changing unhelpful thinking, setting small achievable goals, and building coping skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Motivational strategies are used when people want help finding and keeping momentum for change. Stephen brings 12 years of counseling experience to his work and combines practical methods with a thoughtful, values-aware stance. He pays attention to how life meaning, faith, and personal values shape choices and recovery.
This helps when people face tough decisions, loss, or questions about purpose. People come for help with relationship strain, family-related stress, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, trauma, and chronic health concerns. He also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, isolation, smoking or vaping cessation, and hospice or end-of-life matters.
Sessions are offered in English and are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Stephen uses an approach that mixes cognitive behavioral tools, existential reflection, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques to match what each person needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Stephen uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replace them with practical experiments that reduce worry and improve mood. CBT sessions often include simple exercises to try between meetings, such as tracking thoughts or testing assumptions.He also draws on motivational interviewing to support people who want to make changes but struggle with momentum. This approach focuses on clarifying personal reasons for change and building small steps that feel doable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephen will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences rather than using one fixed style. That shared process helps shape whether the focus is on behavior change, values exploration, or both.
Online therapy with Stephen includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule. Video works well for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when internet bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats can handle quick check-ins or short coaching between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people maintain momentum while managing work, health, or caregiving demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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