About Steven
Steven Forsyth is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience who focuses on practical help for everyday struggles. He works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy issues. He also assists those coping with ADHD, bipolar challenges, sleep or eating concerns, and self-esteem problems.
He uses straightforward, talk-based work to help people notice patterns and try small changes. He draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness, and EMDR when appropriate.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to emphasize clear goals and steps people can test between meetings. Early in his career he worked extensively with addiction recovery and relapse prevention, and that experience still shapes his approach. He describes therapy as holistic - looking at how life events, habits, and relationships fit together when problem solving.
He favors practical strategies that fit daily routines. Clients can expect a calm, matter-of-fact style that balances listening with concrete tools. Steven aims to help people build coping skills, reduce painful thoughts, and strengthen motivation for change.
He helps clients set achievable short-term goals while keeping sight of longer-term growth. Based in Missouri, he offers online sessions in English and is available to international clients. He works with video, phone, chat, and text formats to fit differing schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Steven often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy online. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Acceptance and commitment therapy teaches practical ways to notice thoughts and choose actions that match personal values, which can help with stress, substance use struggles, and motivation.He also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, for trauma-related memories. EMDR combines guided attention with talking work to reduce the intensity of painful memories and the reactions that follow.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. He will discuss goals, past efforts, and personal preferences to decide which methods to try first. Sessions may blend techniques so the plan fits the individual's life and changes over time.
Online therapy gives flexible ways to meet. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, ongoing support between sessions, or people who prefer writing to talk. These options help therapy fit work, travel, or busy family schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English