About Steven
Steven Kirkilas helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, or big life changes. He works with individuals facing depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, or struggles with self-esteem and career decisions. He is Steven Kirkilas, LCSW, CSW, and he practices in Wisconsin.
He focuses on meeting people where they are and listening without judgment. Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical. He uses tools from client-centered work and cognitive approaches to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new responses.
How Steven works
Steven also brings experience with trauma-focused methods, including EMDR, for people who have memories or reactions that keep returning. He combines that with mindfulness work to help manage anxiety, sleep problems, and emotional overwhelm. He pays attention to how the body shows stress as well as what people say.
Over seven years of clinical experience shape his practice. Steven has helped people coping with things like abandonment, attachment concerns, first responder stress, dissociation, and issues tied to disability or grief. He also supports people dealing with eating or intimacy-related problems and those navigating forgiveness, guilt, or shame.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Steven uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and he works with clients in English in Wisconsin.
Steven lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Steven works with
The areas below are the ones Steven selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. It emphasizes respect, empathy, and helping people find their own solutions to stress, relationship worries, or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot patterns of thinking that lead to anxiety, depression, or problematic behavior. It uses practical exercises and gentle experiments to try different ways of thinking and acting.
EMDR addresses distressing memories and their ongoing effects by working through the memory and the sensations that come with it. It can be useful for people who have recurring intrusive memories or strong emotional reactions tied to past events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit goals, comfort level, and the issues at hand. That choice can change over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face interaction, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit brief check-ins, and messaging lets people write between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, family, or other commitments and to continue work consistently.
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