About Steven
Steven Forsyth, LPC, helps people manage stress and anxiety while addressing related concerns like addiction and depression. He listens first to understand what matters most to each person. He aims to create straightforward, practical plans that fit daily life.
With 25 years of experience, Steven draws on a mix of approaches to match the person in front of him. He focuses on behaviors, thoughts, and values to help people move toward what they want.
Background and approach
He also uses mindfulness and trauma-informed techniques when those issues are present. Steven began working in addiction counseling after his own recovery journey. Over the years he has studied many ways to help people change habits, handle relapse risk, and strengthen motivation.
He combines those ideas with a respectful, client-centered stance. In sessions he tends to keep language plain and practical. Conversations lead to small, doable goals.
Progress is tracked by what changes in everyday routines and relationships. Steven works with a wide range of concerns including grief, intimacy issues, sleep and eating struggles, anger, ADHD, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and family of origin problems. His approach blends cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment perspectives, EMDR for trauma-related work, and mindfulness practices.
He is based in Missouri and offers services in English.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Steven often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them even when anxiety or difficult thoughts appear. It focuses on what matters and practical actions that match those values.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT provides clear exercises and skills that transfer well to remote sessions and daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Steven talks with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggests methods to try. The plan is adjusted over time based on what helps and what doesn’t in real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared materials. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text help maintain momentum between calls and can fit into brief breaks or busy days. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a daily routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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