About Steve
Steve Scarborough is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience supporting people facing anxiety and related concerns. He helps with stress, depression, addiction issues, grief, relationship and intimacy challenges, and parenting strain. His style is direct and practical, focused on skills you can use between sessions.
Steve aims for clear, down-to-earth conversations. He listens first, then helps people set small goals. He teaches techniques to manage overwhelming thoughts and strong emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace set by each person. He blends several well-known approaches to fit each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used for spotting unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are included when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Attachment-Based work is offered to address patterns that come from early relationships. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take steps toward a meaningful life.
Client-Centered Therapy keeps sessions focused on the person's experience and choices. Steve works with individuals dealing with trauma, family of origin issues, codependency, and compulsive behaviors. He also supports people navigating career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges, and mood concerns such as bipolar symptoms.
The approach aims to build practical coping tools and better daily routines. Based in Missouri, he communicates in English and uses a collaborative process to tailor therapy. People who want straightforward guidance and concrete strategies often find his sessions useful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is often used when someone wants clearer direction and motivation despite anxiety or difficult emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thinking that lead to distress and then practicing different behaviors to break those patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Steve treats the choice of approach as a team effort. He will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, attachment-focused work, or a mix of methods fits best and then test it in short steps.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full-session work that benefits from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coping reminders, or when writing helps process feelings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week and keep work moving between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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