About Stephen
Stephen Chop, MD, LCSW-C, LCSW helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and phobias. He focuses on practical steps to manage mood, handle workplace pressure, and rebuild confidence. He writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
Stephen has practiced for 30 years and brings that experience to every session. He balances direct problem-solving with time to understand what led to a difficulty. Sessions often involve setting small, doable goals and trying out new coping skills between meetings.
Background and approach
His approach mixes several methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and client-centered work that centers the person’s experience. He also uses elements of acceptance and commitment therapy and emotion-focused methods when feelings need to be felt and named. The work is tailored to the issue and the person’s comfort level.
People turn to him for help with addictions, relationship strain, grief, parenting concerns, ADHD, trauma, and career stress. He also supports those dealing with abandonment, body image, caregiver strain, first responder stress, and forgiveness issues. His aim is to help people gain tools that fit daily life.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Stephen practices from Maryland and works with adult clients in English. He is a medical doctor and a licensed clinical social worker with long experience in behavioral health.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then taking values-based action. It can help with anxiety, phobias, and trouble moving forward after setbacks. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and emphasizes listening, empathy, and the client’s own goals to guide change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, try a method, and adjust based on how it fits the client's needs and preferences. That collaborative process helps find what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat can be useful for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or school schedules while still using the same therapeutic techniques practiced in person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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