Steven Sanfilippo
Compassionate, practical support for life challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Steven
Steven Sanfilippo is a licensed mental health counselor who uses a client-centered approach to help people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and other life difficulties. He offers straightforward, practical support and listens closely to what matters to each person. Steven aims to meet people where they are and build a plan together that fits their situation and goals.
He draws on a mix of approaches, including dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing.
Background and approach
That means sessions may include learning emotion-regulation skills, practicing present-moment awareness, and exploring motivation for change. Conversations are collaborative and paced to match each person's needs. Steven has worked in the field for 11 years and brings experience with a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and LGBT-related matters.
He has also supported people facing existential doubts and those wanting deeper personal work. He notes comfort with spiritual topics and can include spiritual practice when requested. Based in New York, Steven is credentialed as a licensed mental health counselor - NY LMHC 008856.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The format is chosen to fit each person’s needs and daily life. To begin, users follow the Start Therapy flow, answer a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Steven uses client-centered work to create a space where a person’s goals guide the process. That means conversations focus on what matters most to the individual and progress moves at a personal pace. Client-centered work supports concerns like stress, low mood, and relationship questions.He also uses dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, which teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving how people relate to others. DBT techniques are useful for anger, intense anxiety, and situations where emotion regulation and communication skills are needed.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Steven will discuss options, listen to preferences, and try methods that match the person’s needs and goals. The plan can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift, keeping the process collaborative.
Online sessions offer practical benefits: video calls and phone sessions allow live conversation, while live chat and text-based messaging give more flexible, on-the-go ways to stay connected between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity of care when life gets in the way.
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.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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