About Steve
Steve Scarborough is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, ADHD, and relationship or parenting concerns. He uses clear, down-to-earth language in sessions so people can feel heard and understood quickly.
Steve draws on about 10 years of clinical experience to help people facing grief, trauma, or major life changes. He aims to make therapy practical. That can mean breaking problems into small steps, building better routines, or practicing skills that reduce impulsivity and overwhelm.
Background and approach
His approach mixes evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with attachment-focused work and client-centered care. Sessions often include learning ways to manage emotions, improving communication, and practicing new behaviors between meetings. Steve also uses techniques from dialectical behavior work to help with intense emotions and strong reactions.
He pays attention to how past relationships shape present patterns and helps people try different ways of interacting. The focus is on useful tools clients can use right away. People who choose Steve can expect straightforward collaboration about goals and progress.
He offers several online formats to fit different schedules and preferences. Those interested begin by completing a brief matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions according to availability.
Practical approaches for online support and skill building
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and commit to actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and challenges where avoidance is a problem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which is useful for mood issues, stress, and impulsivity. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships affect current patterns and aims to build healthier ways of relating and communicating.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try methods for a few sessions and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and role-play communication skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching, or practicing skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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