About Stephen
Stephen Buck helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. He supports those coping with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. He also offers practical coaching for career concerns and compassion fatigue.
Stephen holds BACP accreditation and practises from the United Kingdom. Stephen works in a warm, conversational way. He asks questions, listens closely and helps people find what makes sense for them.
How Stephen works
Sessions can be short term or longer depending on what the person needs. He adapts the pace and focus to each individual rather than using a single rigid plan. His approach draws on client-centred work that places the person's experience at the centre.
He also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behaviours, and mindfulness to build present-moment awareness. Motivational interviewing helps when people want change but feel stuck. Stephen has 15 years of experience supporting people across many concerns, including ADHD, bipolar and family-related strains.
He has additional focus on adoption and foster care, attachment issues, fatherhood and gender dysphoria, as well as matters connected to kink and alternative sexual culture. Those areas inform how he tailors conversations and goals. Sessions are offered in English and Stephen accepts international clients.
He works online using video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions through the platform.
Stephen lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Stephen works with
The areas below are the ones Stephen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online support
Client-centred work focuses on the person's experience and priorities. In sessions the counsellor listens closely, reflects what he hears and helps people clarify their own goals and values. This approach suits people who want a supportive space to think things through.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours interact. The counsellor helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and tries practical exercises to change reactions and routines. This approach is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.
Mindfulness-based techniques bring attention to the present moment. Simple breathing and awareness exercises are used to reduce rumination and improve coping with stress and cravings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss different methods and agree a plan with the person based on their needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when convenient. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick reflections between sessions or people who express themselves better in writing. These options help therapy fit around work, family and travel commitments.
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