About Steven
Steven Brenner is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and trauma. He has ten years of experience and works with individuals facing major life changes and relationship strains. Steven aims to create a calm, straightforward space where people can speak honestly and begin to feel more in control.
His approach centers on building strong emotional connections and practical skills.
Background and approach
He uses attachment-based methods to look at how relationships shape reactions and coping. He also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. These methods are paired with mindfulness practices to reduce arousal and increase moment-to-moment awareness.
Steven often helps people dealing with family problems, caregiving stress, and issues tied to abandonment or attachment. He also supports those facing substance use concerns, bipolar mood challenges, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Sessions commonly include learning concrete coping tools and experimenting with small behavioral changes between meetings.
He favors a collaborative style where goals are set together and progress is tracked in simple steps. People who value clear explanations and direct guidance may find this approach useful. Steven accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Practical details are discussed up front, including how sessions are scheduled and what formats are possible. The focus is on making therapy fit into daily life so people can practice new skills between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. In sessions this might mean talking about patterns in close relationships and trying new ways of relating that feel safer and more dependable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and mood symptoms and usually includes homework to practice new skills between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they adjust methods over time so the work stays practical and relevant to the client’s life.
Online therapy offers a range of session styles to match daily demands. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation and exercises. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or when typing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care while juggling work, family, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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