About Steven
Steven Mondragon is a Utah-licensed clinical social worker with ten years of hands-on experience. He focuses on practical steps to manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. Steven treats each person as the expert on their own life and centers work around their strengths and goals.
Clients can expect a straightforward, respectful approach that highlights useful tools and small changes. Conversations often include ways to handle strong emotions, reframe upsetting thoughts, and build confidence.
Background and approach
He also draws on methods aimed at trauma recovery when past events continue to cause problems. Steven has spent time helping people who work as first responders, including police, fire, and medical personnel. That experience informs his awareness of high-stress jobs and the kinds of pressures they bring.
He uses that background to shape pacing and priorities in sessions when relevant. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change next. Some meetings use cognitive strategies to shift thought patterns.
Other times they emphasize short-term goals and motivation to move forward. The focus is on practical, workable steps rather than purely abstract discussion. Steven works collaboratively and encourages people to try things between sessions.
He helps set realistic, measurable steps and adjusts plans based on what’s working. He aims to make therapy feel like a clear path toward more manageable days and greater self-trust.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s lead to build trust and clarity. It helps when someone needs space to tell their story and decide what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to change those patterns. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss different methods and help pick what fits the person’s goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying an approach for a few sessions and adjusting if something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no camera. Messaging and live chat allow shorter check-ins, quick coping reminders, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity across changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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