About Steven
Steven Taylor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people struggling with stress and anxiety. He also supports individuals facing addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. His tone is practical and straightforward, aimed at people who want clear steps and steady support.
He focuses on listening first and learning what matters to each person. Sessions are shaped around the goals a client brings, whether that is managing panic, reducing substance use, or improving communication.
Background and approach
He uses plain language and keeps conversations focused on what is helpful right now. Therapy choices may include cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and change unhelpful thinking, mindfulness to reduce reactivity, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation. He also integrates client-centered methods that follow the client’s lead.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing may be used when trauma memories are a central problem. With eight years of experience in Missouri settings, he draws on practical strategies proven useful across many concerns. He treats issues such as sleep or eating problems, parenting strain, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue with the same goal of improving daily functioning.
Steven emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation. He invites people ready to make a change to take small steps at a time. The work is collaborative and paced to match each person’s needs and comfort level.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Steven commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in his work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify patterns of thought that feed anxiety or low mood and then practice specific behavior changes to feel better. Mindfulness teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm in daily life.He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when strong emotions or relationship conflicts are central. DBT skills focus on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication to reduce impulsive reactions and improve interactions with others.
Finding the right approach is something he does together with each person. He begins by learning your goals and preferences, then suggests methods to try and adjusts them as you go. That collaborative process helps match tools to your needs and pace.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversations from wherever you are, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and text-based messaging or live chat can be useful for brief check-ins or when you prefer not to be on camera. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit work, caregiving, or health demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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