Steven Clarke
Supportive practical therapy for life changes
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Steven
Steven Clarke is a licensed mental health counselor who uses straightforward, practical therapy to help people handle life's hard moments. He combines evidence-based methods with a calm, direct style. Steven focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes.
He also addresses parenting concerns and other family-related issues. Steven aims to make sessions useful from the first meeting. He listens carefully to each person’s situation and helps set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
He draws on approaches like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, and mindfulness practices to build coping skills. He brings nine years of clinical experience in Florida and tailors interventions to everyday life. That can mean learning new ways to handle intense emotions, practicing communication skills, or developing routines that reduce anxiety.
Sessions emphasize skills people can use between meetings. Steven often works with people facing relationship friction, blended family tensions, and caregiver stress. He also supports those dealing with addictions, career pressure, or questions about sexuality and identity.
His background includes helping clients through divorce, fatherhood adjustments, and midlife transitions. The therapy process is collaborative. Steven helps people try different strategies and adjust what doesn’t fit.
He prefers clear, practical steps that lead to small changes over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Steven frequently uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely and building a trusting relationship so people can explore what matters to them. This approach is helpful when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to talk through emotions and life decisions.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT, a skills-oriented method that looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and practical problems by teaching tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Steven collaborates with each person to see which methods fit their goals and preferences. He will try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time so the work stays relevant and effective.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, manage sudden needs between meetings, and keep consistent progress from different locations. Licensed professionals can use these formats to focus on skills, communication, and problem solving without requiring an in-person visit.
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
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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