About Steven
Steven Taylor helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri and brings eight years of clinical work to each conversation. He speaks English and offers sessions in several online formats.
Steven keeps sessions straightforward and respectful. He tailors conversations and plans to fit what each person needs right now. He emphasizes listening first, then works with clients to set small, concrete goals they can try between sessions.
How Steven works
His approach draws on client-centered work that focuses on the person's own goals. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to teach emotional regulation and coping. For people coping with trauma, he offers EMDR and mindfulness-based practices when appropriate.
In practical terms Steven helps with things like sleep and eating concerns, parenting stress, workplace pressure, and managing mood conditions such as depression or bipolar symptoms. He also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and long-term health challenges. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to availability. Payment works through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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 | Missouri |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches and online options for practical change
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and experience, creating space to be heard and to shape a plan that fits daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches simple strategies to change patterns that get in the way. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication to help manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan as work progresses. That way the approach evolves from the client's goals rather than being imposed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls make it possible to have a session that feels like an in-person meeting. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or a way to keep progress moving between longer appointments. These options let people fit sessions into busy days and different life situations.
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