About Treva
Treva Satterfield is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Missouri with 21 years of experience. She centers work on practical steps that help people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and life changes. Treva sees clients as the experts in their own story and offers steady support while they build on strengths.
Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented. She helps people talk through trauma, abuse, addiction, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions also address sleep and eating struggles, anger, and motivation and self-esteem challenges. Treva has spent two decades helping people navigate transitions and complex losses. She works with clients facing caregiving strain, chronic illness or pain, attachment and abandonment issues, and blended family or adoption-related questions.
Her background includes supporting those managing bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she emphasizes clear communication and realistic steps. Conversations focus on what is happening now and small changes that make daily life easier.
She encourages clients to try tools between meetings and to review what helps and what does not. Treva offers multiple online formats to fit different routines, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She guides each person toward a plan that fits their goals and schedule.
Starting therapy is presented as a collaborative process rather than a single event. People who want a practical, steady counselor often find her style helpful. She aims to create a calm space for honest talk and steady progress toward clearer days.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Treva uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and symptom relief. One common method involves teaching coping skills and stress management tools to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. These techniques are helpful for worries, sleep problems, and managing strong emotions.Another approach emphasizes processing difficult experiences and trauma through guided conversations and pacing that respect each person's comfort. This helps people make sense of painful events and reduce their impact on current life. Both approaches aim to build useful habits and increase a person’s sense of control.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences, and how they respond to different strategies. This is a shared process that can change over time as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and work well for quick check-ins. Live chat and text are useful for shorter updates, brief coping guidance, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options offer flexibility to fit appointments around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English