About Steven
Steven Paro is a licensed clinical social worker with 46 years of practice. He focuses on practical solutions for stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. He listens carefully and helps people identify strengths they can use right away.
Steven uses straightforward, client-centered work that aims to empower people. Sessions look at what is happening now and what the client wants to change. He helps people reconnect with values or rebuild direction when they feel lost.
How Steven works
Over a long career he has supported people struggling with grief, substance use, mood disorders, and trauma from many stages of life. He has also worked with people experiencing neurodevelopmental challenges and severe intellectual disability. That experience informs how he adjusts pace and communication.
His approach draws on several methods, including cognitive behavioral ideas to change thinking patterns, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, dialectical behavior skills for emotion regulation, and eye movement work for traumatic memories. He matches techniques to each person's needs and goals rather than applying a single method. Sessions are offered in English from New York.
Steven aims to create concrete steps clients can try between appointments. He encourages people who are overwhelmed to start with small, doable goals and build from there.
Steven lists 9 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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 46 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be used to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity when trauma is a central issue.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match needs, and adjust strategies based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to fit techniques to the person's pace and preferences rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief updates or when writing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping treatment consistent.
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