Stephen Weiss
Experienced clinician focused on practical family support
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona, Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Stephen
Stephen Weiss is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with four decades of practice. He practices in Arizona and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, relationship challenges, parenting concerns, and related life changes. He begins work by meeting people where they are and listening to what matters most to them.
With a calm, direct style, he helps clients identify strengths and small steps forward.
Background and approach
He avoids jargon and encourages practical choices that fit each person's life. He speaks plainly about progress being gradual and about making changes that feel doable. Stephen blends several approaches to suit different needs.
He uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify values, and attachment-based ideas to look at important relationship patterns. He also uses client-centered and dialectical behavior therapy skills when they fit the situation. Over forty years of work have shaped a way of practicing that values honesty and collaboration.
He aims to build a trusting therapeutic relationship so people can address what interferes with their quality of life. He is comfortable talking with clients for whom faith plays a role in their decisions. Sessions are offered in English and use flexible formats, including video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on therapist availability.
How Stephen Uses Structured Approaches Online
Stephen often draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy when working with clients. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters most to them so they can act in line with their values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early and current relationship patterns and how those patterns affect feelings and closeness, which can help with recurring conflicts and trust issues. He treats finding the right approach as a shared task. Early sessions focus on understanding the client’s needs, goals, and preferences, and then he suggests methods that look like a good fit. The plan is adjusted together as therapy progresses so approaches match real-world challenges. Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to keep continuity when schedules change. The therapist works to adapt exercises, skills practice, and conversational work to the chosen online format so progress can continue between meetings.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point