About Steven
Steven Forsyth is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship worries, grief, and ADHD. He speaks plainly and listens closely to what matters to each person.
He draws on a mix of practical approaches to tailor sessions to individual needs. In conversation he uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people focus on values and small daily steps.
Background and approach
He also incorporates mindfulness practices and has experience using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma work. Steven began his counseling work after years in recovery, and that personal background shaped his interest in addiction and relapse-prevention strategies. Over time his approach broadened to include narrative ideas and motivational interviewing to support change.
He aims to meet people where they are and help them set realistic, concrete goals. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented. He emphasizes practical tools clients can use between sessions - breathing and grounding exercises, behavior experiments, and value-based action plans.
Conversations address patterns that keep people stuck and small steps to shift them. Steven offers online options for a range of concerns and adapts his style to each person's pace. He works from Missouri and communicates in English.
His long clinical experience guides a steady, hopeful approach to difficult problems.
How Steven's approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. In online sessions this looks like planning short daily actions and tracking progress between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and behavior that cause trouble and replacing them with practical experiments. CBT online often uses worksheets, thought records, and step-by-step behavioral tasks that clients can do between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus; these exercises are easy to introduce over video or in text-based check-ins.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and do guided exercises together. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when written reflection feels easiest. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent and fit it into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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