Steven Buck
Calm, experienced support for family and relationships
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Steven
Steven Buck is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience helping people navigate relationship and family concerns. He works with adults on issues like parenting, anger, depression, anxiety, stress, addiction, and intimacy. He aims to be non-judgmental and listens closely to understand each person’s perspective.
He draws on long experience in psychiatric hospitals, independent practice, and community agencies. That background gives him practical skills for handling complex mood and behavior issues.
Background and approach
He focuses on strengths and treats seeking help as a positive step. In sessions he uses clear, straightforward methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Emotionally-Focused and Attachment-Based ideas guide how couples and families reconnect and improve trust. Steven pays attention to family structure, boundaries, and communication patterns when those issues matter. He also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who want to make life changes but feel stuck.
He works to offer options that fit each person’s life and goals. He has experience with a wide range of concerns including trauma, grief, ADHD, bipolar disorder, LGBT issues, and caregiver stress. He brings calm, practical guidance and aims to help people find healthier ways to cope and relate to others.
Approaches that guide online family and relationship work
Steven integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy into online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors so day-to-day life feels easier. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people build safer emotional connections. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps couples and family members name emotions and respond to each other in ways that deepen trust and closeness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will talk with clients about goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits family life and relationship needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer more flexibility. These options make it possible to connect from home, handle scheduling challenges, and continue work between sessions. The focus stays on practical steps and clearer communication, with methods adapted to work effectively through online sessions.
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.
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
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
Next step
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