About Stephen
Stephen Burke is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of practice in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He helps people facing relationship stress, trauma, parenting struggles, career changes, and addiction concerns. Stephen also supports those dealing with grief, anxiety, stress, and identity-related issues.
Stephen uses a straightforward, collaborative style in sessions. He asks what matters most and helps clients set clear, achievable goals. Conversations focus on strengths and practical steps rather than long explanations.
How Stephen works
He brings particular experience with adoption and foster care challenges and attachment concerns. He also works with people navigating blended family issues, fatherhood questions, divorce and separation, and family of origin problems. First responder stress and compassion fatigue are among other areas he addresses.
Therapy with Stephen blends client-centered care with solution-focused work. That means clients lead on goals while together they build short-term plans to move forward. Trauma-informed practices guide work with people who have experienced emotional or physical abuse.
Sessions are designed to be thoughtful and nonjudgmental. Stephen frames challenges as solvable and focuses on small changes that add up. He offers coaching-style support alongside therapeutic work to help people improve daily functioning and relationships.
Stephen lists 3 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.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Hampshire |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approach and access: therapy that fits your life
Stephen blends client-centered work and solution-focused therapy to keep sessions practical and goal oriented. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on what you want to achieve and follows your lead, helping with relationship, parenting, or self-esteem concerns. Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, doable changes and builds on your existing strengths to address stress, anxiety, or career challenges. Trauma-Focused Therapy offers specific attention to people who have experienced physical or emotional harm and helps process and reduce the impact of those experiences.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephen will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals and preferences. Together they develop a plan that can include short-term coaching, skills practice, or deeper trauma work depending on what’s needed.
Online therapy is offered using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suits quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit sessions around work, caregiving, or other daily demands while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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