About Steven
Steven Buck is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people face relationship problems, anxiety, depression, phobias, and parenting stress. He practices from Missouri and focuses on practical ways to reduce anger, improve communication, and build self-esteem. He also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, addictions, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Steven keeps sessions straightforward and nonjudgmental. He listens for how clients see their situation and offers options to try, rather than pushing a single method.
Background and approach
He emphasizes strengths and small steps that can be used between sessions. His background includes nearly two decades working in a psychiatric hospital, plus time in independent practice and community mental health agencies. That range gives him experience with both crisis settings and longer-term work.
He draws on what he learned in each setting when planning care. Clinically he uses a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based ideas, emotionally focused work, client-centered methods, and motivational interviewing. He often combines these to match a person’s goals and life situation.
Sessions will include clear strategies and chances to try new responses. People who come to him for help can expect a practical focus on boundaries, family patterns, and communication. The goal is to leave with tools that make daily life easier and relationships clearer.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can help identify patterns in current relationships and practice new ways of connecting and communicating. Client-centered therapy centers on being heard and understood; the therapist reflects what a person says and helps them find their own solutions. This approach works well in a conversational video or phone session where listening and reflection are central.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) gives clear tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT techniques are easy to teach over video or messaging and can include short exercises and homework between sessions to build new habits. These methods are commonly used for anxiety, phobias, stress, and mood concerns and adapt well to remote work.
Finding the right approach is part of the first sessions. The therapist will work with the client to pick techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process may mix attachment ideas, client-centered listening, and CBT exercises until a good fit is found.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and body language cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit during a break. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, short reflections, or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy around work, family, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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