About Steven
Steven Kirkilas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, ADHD, and other life challenges. He uses plain conversation and practical tools so parents and individuals can make small, steady changes. Steven works from Wisconsin and speaks English.
He meets people where they are and aims to listen without judgment. Sessions focus on understanding what feels most overwhelming and building clear steps to reduce that burden.
Background and approach
He blends hands-on skills with reflective work to help people cope day to day. Steven draws on Client-Centered Therapy to keep the person's experience central. He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to map thoughts and actions, and EMDR for processing traumatic memories when appropriate.
These methods are mixed to match what a person needs in the moment. In practical terms he offers mindfulness exercises for anxiety and depression and uses talk and activity to address attention and impulse challenges related to ADHD. He also supports people facing grief, relationship strain, career stress, and addiction concerns.
The focus is on usable strategies rather than abstract theory. Steven holds the LCSW and CSW credentials; LCSW stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker and CSW for Clinical Social Worker. He has seven years of clinical experience and offers sessions by video, phone, chat, or text.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person’s own goals and pace, with the therapist following the client’s lead and offering reflection and support. It helps when someone needs a calm, accepting space to talk through choices and feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is practical for anxiety, depression, and problems with attention or routine because it teaches concrete skills to try between sessions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to process painful memories and reduce their emotional charge through guided techniques. It can be helpful for trauma-related symptoms when a person and therapist agree it is appropriate.
Steven treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. He will discuss options, explain what a method involves, and adjust plans based on the client’s goals and response. That teamwork helps match methods to needs rather than using a single fixed approach.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth or screen time is limited, live chat can suit brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different ways of working until the best fit is found.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Washington
- Languages
- English
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