Stephen Schottgen Jr
Compassionate, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Mississippi, Alabama
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stephen
Stephen Schottgen Jr is a licensed social worker practicing in Alabama. He holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and brings 13 years of clinical experience to his work. He aims to make contact simple and straightforward for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or changes in life circumstances.
Stephen uses plain talk and a respectful tone in sessions. He focuses on building a plan that fits each person’s needs, goals, and pace.
Background and approach
He emphasizes sensitivity and compassion while helping clients address motivation, self-esteem, and confidence concerns. Over his career he has supported people dealing with addictions, sleep problems, anger, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. He has also worked with issues such as codependency, trauma, fertility and immigration stress, and relationship challenges including infidelity and non-monogamous arrangements.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted through flexible formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. He explains options clearly so people can choose what feels manageable. Stephen tailors the dialogue and any plan to the person in front of him.
He acknowledges that starting therapy can be hard and aims to make each step practical and doable. His approach centers on collaboration, steady support, and clear next steps.
How evidence-based approaches meet online care
Stephen uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and symptom relief. One approach emphasizes identifying current patterns that cause stress or low mood and then testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms; this helps with anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms. Another approach teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving coping, which can be useful for anger, grief, addiction recovery, and compassion fatigue.Finding the right method is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, symptoms, and what feels doable. From there he recommends and adjusts approaches so the plan fits the client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, maintain continuity during life changes, and choose the format that feels most comfortable. Licensed professionals can use these formats to work on the same evidence-based skills they would in person while keeping the focus on practical, usable steps.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Alabama
- Languages
- English
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