About Steve
Steve Hammer is a Kansas-based licensed social worker with 40 years of experience. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, trauma and abuse, and family-related strains. He aims to meet people where they are and offers steady, practical support during hard moments.
Steve listens first and adapts the conversation to each person's needs. Sessions are shaped around what matters to the individual rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
He emphasizes respect and sensitivity while helping clients identify small, concrete steps forward. His approach blends client-centered methods with evidence-informed techniques. That means the person drives the goals while Steve introduces strategies to manage symptoms, regulate emotion, and improve communication.
He also uses skills-based work to address patterns like obsessive thoughts, codependency, and control issues. Over four decades he has worked with a wide range of concerns related to family life, divorce and blended households, fatherhood questions, and the effects of trauma. He brings experience supporting people coping with guilt, shame, infidelity, isolation, and life-purpose questions.
Steve believes change begins with small experiments outside the therapy session. He helps clients try new responses, track what works, and adjust plans over time. The focus is on practical tools and steady agreement about next steps so people feel less overwhelmed and more able to move forward.
How his approaches work online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the client's lead to set goals and priorities. It helps people who need a flexible process and a therapist who responds to what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills for noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, obsessive thinking, low mood, and for managing strong stress reactions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers strategies for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills are helpful for people who feel overwhelmed by intense emotions or struggle with relationship patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose or combine methods based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That collaborative planning helps keep sessions relevant and focused on achievable steps.
Online therapy can make regular care easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls are helpful when visual cues matter, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility so therapy fits around work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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