About Steven
Steven Gares is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people facing stress and anxiety. He keeps things straightforward and focuses on the next practical step. He values the courage it takes to begin therapy and meets clients where they are.
He treats trauma, depression, and eating concerns using approaches that center the person’s own experience. Steven sees clients as the experts in their lives and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning. His work also addresses relationship strains, grief, sleep problems, anger, and issues around self-esteem and career choices. He supports people dealing with addictions, bipolar symptoms, and ADHD-related challenges.
Additional focus areas include blended family issues, body image, codependency, and communication problems. Steven uses a mix of methods such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused ideas, EMDR, and Jungian perspectives. He adapts the tools to the person in front of him rather than following one fixed method.
That flexibility helps him tailor sessions to the specific concern. With 12 years of experience in counseling, Steven offers both short-term and longer-term support. People who want straightforward guidance and a strengths-based approach may find his style helpful.
He works by listening carefully and collaborating on goals.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting the client’s experience. It helps people feel heard and guides the work based on their goals and strengths. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical steps to change patterns that worsen anxiety or depression. EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is used for trauma-related memories and involves focused processing that can reduce distress tied to past events.The choice of approach is a collaborative decision. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that suit the concern, and adjust over time if something isn’t working. Clients often combine approaches so the work matches both the problem and the person’s style.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for longer sessions and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients send notes between sessions and use shorter, more frequent check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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