About Steve
Steve Scarborough is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing addiction, anxiety, depression, relationship trouble, and stress. He supports those dealing with trauma, grief, parenting strain, attention challenges, and career or life changes. Steve writes plainly and aims to make sessions feel practical and understandable.
Steve brings ten years of counseling experience to his work. He uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Background and approach
In sessions he focuses on skills people can use between meetings, clearer communication, and managing strong emotions. His background includes practice in Missouri and a Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC. That training guides how he organizes sessions, sets goals, and tracks progress.
He often blends methods to match how a person responds rather than relying on one single technique. Steve typically helps clients address patterns such as codependency, abandonment concerns, commitment worries, and impulsivity. He also works with common relationship strains like communication problems and family of origin issues.
His work includes helping caregivers manage stress and supporting fathers with parenting challenges. In a first session Steve focuses on understanding what matters most to the client and creating small, achievable steps. Follow-up sessions combine practical skill-building and conversations about thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
He aims to make therapy useful day to day, not just in the therapy room.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, asks people to clarify their values and take small steps toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, addiction, and major life changes by shifting focus toward meaningful actions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they show up today, aiming to build safer, more trusting ways of relating and reducing repeating cycles in partnerships and family interactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical experiments, which is useful for depression, anxiety, and impulse control.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Steve will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your preferences and needs. Sessions may blend techniques so progress feels tailored and practical rather than forced.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you work face to face when schedules or travel make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or during a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, and keeping momentum between scheduled meetings. These formats offer flexibility so therapy can fit into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English