Steven Forsyth
Helping people find steady ground
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Steven
Steven Forsyth is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 25 years of experience. He focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, and other life disruptions. He speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel direct and understandable for someone juggling family responsibilities.
He draws on many methods that have shaped his work over decades. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and mindfulness tools often show up in sessions.
Background and approach
He is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, which he completed through EMDRIA in 2021. Sessions tend to look like focused conversations that identify patterns and try small, testable changes. Clients learn skills for managing strong emotions, shifting unhelpful thoughts, and handling cravings or relapse risk.
He also works on communication, boundaries, and rebuilding routine after hard events. Steven describes his approach as holistic. He treats people as whole, shaped by life events, not just a list of symptoms.
He emphasizes a hopeful outlook and keeps the tone practical and encouraging. Over his career he has trained in several behavior-change models like Motivational Interviewing and stages of change. He also uses solution-focused and relapse prevention strategies when they fit the client’s goals.
Online formats are part of his practice and may be used depending on how a person prefers to connect.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values instead of getting stuck in avoidance. It is useful when someone wants to build a clearer sense of what matters and take steady steps toward it. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to spot unhelpful thinking and change behavior through small experiments. It works well for anxiety, depression, and managing day-to-day stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured approach used to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and troublesome images; it can be integrated when past events are getting in the way of current life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust over time. This happens collaboratively so clients stay involved in choosing what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or caregiving duties. Video calls let conversations feel face-to-face while avoiding travel time. Phone, live chat, and text messaging give options for short check-ins, skill practice, or when speaking live is hard. These formats aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent and useful for everyday life.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
Next step
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