About Steven
Steven Harris offers support for people coping with anxiety, relationship strain, grief, trauma, addiction, and parenting stress. He greets worried clients with calm, direct guidance and practical steps they can use between sessions. Steven typically frames therapy around everyday struggles and small, achievable changes.
He sees the person, not just the problem. Steven believes people know important parts of their story and that those strengths can guide change. He encourages clear goals and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Background and approach
With 34 years of experience, Steven draws on several ways of working to match the client in front of him. Sessions often include simple behavioral tasks, ways to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts, and attention to how close relationships affect mood and behavior. Mindfulness skills are offered to help with stress, sleep, and anger.
Steven uses a client-centered stance that keeps the conversation focused on what the client needs each week. He also uses attachment-based and emotion-focused techniques when relationship patterns or emotional blocks are central to the concern. Practical coaching elements are used when people need help with career, caregiving stress, or life transitions.
People meet with Steven by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Sessions are paced to suit each person, and he helps clients build tools they can use after therapy ends.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions can help people spot repeating patterns in close relationships and try new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. In teletherapy CBT is used to identify unhelpful thinking, test alternative ideas, and practice small behavioral experiments between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. Goals, pace, and homework are agreed on together so therapy feels manageable and relevant.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler to schedule. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or do shorter, focused exchanges. These options give flexibility while letting licensed professionals guide skill practice, track progress, and adapt work as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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