About Steven
Steven Kirkilas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. He works in straightforward, down-to-earth ways so a parent worried on their phone can understand next steps. Steven speaks plainly about options and listens for what matters most to each person.
Steven uses practical tools to tackle day-to-day problems. He draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and on client-centered skills to follow a person's priorities.
Background and approach
He also brings trauma-focused methods when past events continue to cause distress. He has seven years of experience and holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His credentials include LCSW and CSW, and he practices from Wisconsin.
Steven helps people with a wide range of concerns, including grief, addictions, relationship struggles, ADHD, and issues with sleep or eating. Sessions often include breathing and mindfulness exercises for immediate relief. He may use guided discussion to reframe thoughts and behavioral experiments to test new ways of coping.
For people with traumatic memories, he can include EMDR-informed steps as part of the work. People who choose Steven can expect a collaborative pace. He aims to make therapy useful and practical, focusing on skills that fit into daily life.
He welcomes questions and adjusts the approach to each person's goals and circumstances.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Steven commonly blends client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to give clear tools people can use between sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the client's priorities so goals come from what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and offers experiments and exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood.He also uses trauma-focused methods when memories or past events are causing ongoing distress, offering paced techniques to process those experiences. Choosing which approach to use is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together based on needs, goals, and preferences, and the plan can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their life. Video is helpful for visual cues and longer work, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or homework between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let therapy fit around school, work, or caregiving.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Washington
- Languages
- English
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