About Stephen
Stephen Strunk is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with 25 years of experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family concerns. He also offers coaching for personal growth and life transitions.
Stephen uses a direct but compassionate style in sessions. He focuses on practical skills people can use right away. He listens for patterns in how people cope and suggests small, realistic changes that build over time.
Background and approach
His background spans many common and complex problems, including communication difficulties, attachment issues, blended family challenges, chronic illness and pain, body image and eating concerns, and caregiver stress. He brings a long track record of working with mood and anxiety struggles and the effects they have on daily life. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused.
Stephen helps clients set clear, manageable objectives and tracks progress between meetings. He blends structured techniques with time to talk things through and make sense of feelings. Work may include learning new coping skills, changing unhelpful thinking patterns, and improving how people express needs and limits.
The approach is practical and oriented toward everyday life, so gains are meant to carry into work, family, and relationships. People who choose him can expect straightforward feedback, step-by-step skill building, and attention to how symptoms affect relationships and routines.
Evidence-based techniques and online convenience
Stephen draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques such as cognitive behavioral approaches and structured skill work. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying alternative thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Structured skill work helps people build coping strategies for stress, communication, and managing symptoms in daily life.Finding the right approach is a team effort. He will work with clients to identify which techniques fit their goals, preferences, and current difficulties. That collaborative process means plans are adjusted over time so work in sessions lines up with what a person actually needs.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or being on camera is not ideal. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, between-session support, or people who prefer typing to talking. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days while keeping work focused on skills and real-life change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English