About Steven
Steven Cohen is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. He works with adults who are struggling with relationships, parenting challenges, depression, and major life changes. He aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can start making practical changes.
He uses clear, direct conversation to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on specific problems and usable steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
He adapts the pace and plan to match a client’s needs rather than following a rigid program. His approach draws from attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect trust and closeness. He also uses client-centered principles to keep the conversation grounded in what the person wants to work on.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are added when helpful to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Steven has worked with people facing anger, self-esteem struggles, career concerns, and complex family history issues. He also supports those navigating adoption and foster care, commitment worries, and body image concerns.
He brings practical tools alongside deeper relationship work. People who choose him can expect a collaborative process that balances short-term problem solving with attention to emotional patterns. He speaks English and practices in New Jersey as an LCSW.
The first steps are a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the person’s routine.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of closeness and trust that developed in early relationships and how they show up now. It can help people understand why certain relationship dynamics keep repeating and how to build healthier bonds. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses straightforward exercises to reduce anxiety and shift unhelpful thinking. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the focus on the person’s goals, using empathetic listening to help someone find their own direction.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan over time based on how the person responds.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice new interactions. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief skills practice, or when a short update fits better into a break at work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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