Steve Hammond
Practical, direct support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English, Dutch
- Format
- Online sessions
About Steve
Steve Hammond is a licensed professional counselor with 11 years of experience. He listens first, then asks straight questions to help people find clear next steps. He speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel doable for busy parents and adults.
He focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship challenges. Parenting and family topics are central to his work, including blended family issues, fatherhood concerns, and adoption and foster care questions.
Background and approach
He also addresses trauma, grief, intimacy-related issues, and struggles around sexual orientation in a direct, respectful way. Steve combines well-researched methods with a personal values framework. In sessions he helps clients set small goals, practice new ways of talking, and try concrete skills between meetings.
He prefers practical, step-by-step plans over long talks that go nowhere. Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental presence and a focus on workable change. He can guide conversations about communication problems, codependency, and forgiveness.
He also helps people cope with life changes and manage compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and Dutch and take place online through video, phone, chat, or text formats. His license is LPC, Georgia license GA LPC LPC009700.
To begin, prospective clients use the site’s Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with warmth and following each person’s lead. It helps people feel heard and more able to make their own choices about relationships and parenting.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, mood, or unhelpful reactions in family situations.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods together, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Choices about technique are guided by needs, preferences, and how the work is progressing.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy family lives. Video calls let people read facial cues and practice conversations with guidance. Phone sessions are useful when video is not practical, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing accountability. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a parent’s schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English, Dutch
Next step
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