About Stephen
Stephen School is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. He brings eight years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. He also supports people facing parenting stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, bipolar mood issues, and career challenges.
Stephen approaches each person as the expert on their own life. He looks for strengths people already have and builds from there.
How Stephen works
Sessions are practical and straightforward, aimed at small changes that add up over time. In therapy he listens carefully and offers tools tailored to the issue at hand. For trauma and abuse he focuses on safety and pacing.
For grief and loss he helps people find ways to remember and adjust. For stress and anxiety he teaches ways to manage day-to-day reactions. He also works with people dealing with attachment and abandonment worries, body image concerns, chronic illness and pain, and patterns like codependency or control issues.
When mood disorders or co-occurring problems are present, he helps clients set manageable goals and track progress. Stephen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person. His aim is to support, empower, and coach people toward clearer choices and better functioning.
He accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Stephen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common method helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and change them into more useful ones, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Another approach emphasizes building skills - like emotion regulation, stress management, and healthier communication - to improve daily functioning and relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on how well the strategies work and what the person prefers.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people meet face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, in-the-moment coaching, or when scheduling is tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity of care across locations.
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