About Steven
Steven Nordeen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin. He brings six years of counseling work across public and community settings. Steven focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, substance issues, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
He previously worked with the state's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. His background also includes roles as a case manager and a forensic mental health counselor in Madison, Wisconsin.
Background and approach
Before counseling he held varied jobs from corrections work to airplane mechanics and financial planning, which gave him a practical, down-to-earth outlook. Steven’s approach is client-centered and influenced by humanistic ideas. He emphasizes listening, respect, and honesty in sessions.
He avoids telling people what to do and instead helps them find their own answers. In sessions he uses several approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, narrative work, and psychodynamic ideas. He applies these tools to areas like addiction, anger, chronic pain and illness, communication problems, and feelings of isolation or guilt.
People who choose him can expect a straightforward style that values clear conversation and realistic plans. He helps clients break problems into manageable steps and supports them while they try new ways of coping. Steven aims to build a working relationship where goals and next steps are clear.
How Steven's Approaches Work Online
Steven blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral and motivational techniques. Client-centered work means the therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead to build goals together; it helps people who need respect, steady support, and clear feedback. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and manage stress. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck about change, especially with addictions or impulse issues, by exploring ambivalence and building internal reasons to move forward.Deciding which approach to use is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then adapt techniques over time. That collaborative process lets people try different tools and keep what actually helps them.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and working through exercises; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to use therapeutic tools consistently while balancing daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Antisocial personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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