Steven Gares
Compassionate counseling for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Steven
Steven Gares is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and issues with eating. He speaks plainly and treats each person as the expert on their own life. He encourages small steps and recognizes that reaching out for help takes courage.
Steven uses practical talk and listening to help clients sort problems. He draws on approaches like client-centered therapy to follow each person's goals.
Background and approach
He also employs cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and emotional patterns. Over 12 years he has worked with a wide range of concerns. These include addictions, grief, sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.
He also addresses family-related topics such as blended family issues, communication problems, fatherhood issues, divorce and separation, and other family problems. He has additional focus on body image, codependency, hoarding, forgiveness, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. He lists hospice and end-of-life counseling among his areas of attention as well.
Steven holds licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, in Texas (TX LPC 69335). He offers services in English and accepts international clients. Sessions are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the client’s priorities. In practice this means the therapist reflects concerns, asks about goals, and helps the person choose what to focus on. It is useful for people who want a supportive space to make decisions and try small changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. The therapist and client work together to test new ways of thinking and try different actions. This approach often helps with anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and some eating-related difficulties.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, can be used when past upsetting events continue to cause strong reactions. It pairs guided attention with talking about memories to reduce distress and improve coping for trauma-related concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and help decide what fits your needs, goals, and preferences. That choice is collaborative and may change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. These formats let people connect from home, manage schedules more easily, and continue work between sessions. The methods above adapt well to remote formats, and the therapist uses available tools to support the chosen approach.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Steven
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- Stop at any point