About Steven
Steven Osterstrom is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 24 years of experience. He offers a warm, interactive style that helps people face stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and questions about identity and relationships. Steven emphasizes practical skills and gentle exploration so people can notice patterns that hold them back and begin to make changes.
He combines acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive behavior techniques and mindfulness.
How Steven works
Sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts, learning coping skills, and practicing small changes that build confidence. The work can include exploring grief, trauma, parenting challenges, career concerns, and intimacy-related issues. Steven has spent many years teaching social work students and has led group work in correctional settings through a violence prevention program.
Those experiences shaped his commitment to working respectfully across differences and promoting a gender-inclusive, anti-racist stance. He brings that perspective into conversations about family of origin, fatherhood issues, and attachment concerns. People may expect a compassionate, strengths-based approach that mixes teaching with reflection.
He uses mindfulness exercises, behavioral strategies, and values-focused work to address shame, codependency, control issues, and life-purpose questions. Sessions aim to build practical tools and everyday skills. Steven helps people cope with life changes such as divorce and separation, managing bipolar symptoms alongside other concerns, and recovering from abuse.
He supports work on communication problems, forgiveness, and reducing compassion fatigue while honoring each person’s pace.
Steven lists 7 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Mindfulness and skills-based therapy online
Steven uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT emphasizes noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values rather than getting stuck on unhelpful thinking.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns and develop practical coping strategies. CBT offers concrete tools for managing anxiety, depression, and stress by changing unhelpful behaviors and testing beliefs.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Steven will meet clients where they are and collaborate on which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they try different techniques and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays relevant and workable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people practice skills in real time, phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or fit a work break, and chat or messaging can support ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and changing life demands.
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