About Steven
Steven Brenner is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. He uses straightforward, practical methods to help clients build resilience and handle day-to-day pressure. He works with adults facing addiction, trauma, life changes, mood concerns including bipolar disorder, and relationship strain.
Sessions aim to make coping skills easier to use in real life. The tone is supportive and nonjudgmental. Steven blends several approaches to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. He also uses attachment-informed methods to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Mindfulness exercises and focused processing are offered when they fit a client’s goals.
These practices help people notice strong emotions and respond rather than react. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is included as an option for processing trauma when appropriate. Steven has worked in the field for 10 years and holds a Florida LMHC license.
He aims to create short-term goals and practical steps that can be tried between sessions. Many people come for relief from anxiety, improved relationships, and steadier mood. Sessions are offered in English and are flexible in format.
The initial process includes a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling so therapy can begin in a way that fits each person’s life.
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Steven mixes cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-based work in straightforward ways. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape present reactions and helps people build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversational work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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