Steven Armstrong
Practical, nonjudgmental support for life transitions
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Steven
Steven Armstrong is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life transitions. He uses plain talk and steady support to help clients sort through low mood, motivation problems, and concerns tied to identity and relationships.
Sessions aim to be direct and nonjudgmental so people can voice hard thoughts and try new ways forward. He draws on seven years of clinical work in Georgia and brings several therapy styles into the room.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and motivational interviewing are common tools he uses to set goals and build everyday skills. Jungian and psychodynamic ideas sometimes help when deeper history or meaning is important. In practice he helps clients look at beliefs and habits that keep problems going.
He works with issues such as addictions, grief, intimacy concerns, anger, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas he supports include adoption and foster care questions, attachment difficulties, body image, and sexual diversity topics. Sessions are aimed at making concrete changes over time while also honoring personal values and identity.
Steven encourages clear communication and small experiments between meetings so progress can be tracked. He explains options and tailors the plan to each person’s needs. People who choose him can expect straightforward feedback and collaborative goal-setting.
He emphasizes building coping tools that fit daily life and creating a respectful space to address hard topics.
Therapy approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small, value-based steps despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where motivation and direction are concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. This approach is often used for stress, anxiety, mood, and coping skills. Motivational Interviewing is a short, focused way to build readiness for change by exploring personal reasons and strengths for shifting habits or substance use.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Steven will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed so therapy fits the person's life and priorities.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling easier around school, work, or caregiving. These options let people keep therapy consistent even when travel or busy days make in-person visits hard. The variety of formats supports both skill practice and ongoing check-ins between longer conversations.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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