About Stephen
Stephen Brown is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with 36 years of experience working with adolescents and adults. He helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, relationship struggles, and trauma and abuse. He uses straightforward methods to help clients start feeling better and build practical skills.
Stephen’s style is calm and soft-spoken. He listens without judgment and focuses on each person’s strengths. Early sessions are used to understand how someone has been feeling and to set realistic goals together.
Background and approach
He often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions to help clients notice thinking patterns and try new ways of responding. This gives people tools they can use between sessions to manage mood and stress. Sessions are focused, collaborative, and aimed at small, achievable changes.
Over his career he has helped people with a wide range of concerns, including abandonment issues, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, commitment and control issues, and challenges related to autism and personality difficulties. He also supports people facing aging and geriatric concerns and those coping after disasters.
Stephen provides care to people located in Ohio through telehealth formats. He speaks English and works to make scheduling and communication straightforward. Getting started begins with a brief intake so he can match his approach to a person’s needs and goals.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Stephen often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and phobia-related avoidance because it gives concrete skills to practice between sessions.He also emphasizes a client-centered, collaborative style. That means the therapist listens, highlights a person’s strengths, and works with them to set realistic goals and steps. This approach helps shape sessions to match a person’s concerns and pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephen will help clients explore which techniques fit their needs and preferences. Together they decide what to try, review progress, and adjust plans as goals evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for brief check-ins or when a shorter, written update fits a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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