About Steven
Steven Taylor is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and grief. He works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and mood conditions like depression and bipolar. He aims to offer steady support and practical steps when life feels overwhelming.
Sessions are straightforward and focused on the client's goals. He listens without judgment and shapes conversations to the needs in the room.
Background and approach
That can mean practicing new skills, learning ways to change unhelpful thoughts, or working through painful memories at a pace that feels tolerable. Steven uses a mix of approaches depending on what each person needs. He draws on client-centered methods to build trust, cognitive behavioral strategies to address thinking and behavior patterns, and mindfulness to help with emotional regulation.
He also brings in techniques for processing traumatic memories when appropriate. Over eight years of work in Missouri have given him experience with a broad set of life challenges, from caregiving stress and chronic illness to issues around identity and codependency. He adapts plans as people make progress or encounter setbacks, aiming for clear steps and measurable change.
People who come to Steven can expect a collaborative process. He helps set practical goals, teaches tools to use between sessions, and checks in on what is or isn’t working. The focus is on making daily life more manageable and moving toward the changes the client wants.
How Steven’s Approaches Work Online
Steven commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship so people can talk honestly about what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress.He may also draw on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotional regulation and intense reactions are a concern. DBT offers concrete tools for managing strong feelings, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and reducing behaviors that cause harm. Together these approaches give both a listening stance and clear techniques to practice between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals and preferences, and he adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay aligned with what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper dialog and skill practice, phone calls can fit into a busy day, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging is helpful for ongoing coaching or brief support. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent alongside work, family, and other obligations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English