About Steven
Steven Vaughan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 22 years of experience. He helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He talks plainly and offers steady support for day-to-day problems and big life changes.
He draws on practical, insight-oriented methods that combine thinking about patterns with focused strategies for change. Sessions often include looking at unhelpful thinking, identifying small steps to try, and noticing how past experiences shape current choices.
Background and approach
He aims to make therapy useful and understandable rather than abstract. Steven has worked across several settings and has supported people dealing with trauma, addictions, bipolar symptoms, sleep problems, and caregiver stress. He also assists people facing career pressures, anger, shame, and family-of-origin issues.
His broad background informs a flexible approach tailored to each person’s situation. Many people meet him wanting clearer goals, fewer setbacks, and better daily routines. He combines Motivational Interviewing and solution-focused ideas to build momentum and practical plans.
He also uses psychodynamic ideas to help people see long-standing patterns that keep them stuck. Therapy with Steven is collaborative and straightforward. He invites clients to set priorities and test changes between sessions.
For someone who wants a direct, experienced guide to work through emotional pain or executive-function struggles related to ADHD, he offers steady, action-oriented support.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Steven blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing in ways that map well to online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and ADHD-related routines. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to build motivation and make small, sustainable changes when someone feels stuck.He also uses psychodynamic ideas when helpful to uncover long-running patterns and how early experiences affect present choices. Picking the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Steven will work together with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video sessions let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging are useful for quick updates, brief exercises, or flexible check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, caregiving, or other demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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