About Steven
Steven Cohen is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 14 years of practice to conversations about stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting, and depression. He keeps things respectful and straightforward. He focuses on making sessions feel useful from the first meeting.
Steven uses a mix of practical approaches in sessions. He draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. He also uses client-centered and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people change thoughts and behaviors that cause distress.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and adapted to each person's needs. He listens first, then helps set small, achievable goals. Common topics include coping with life changes, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and managing bipolar symptoms.
Steven also supports people dealing with family of origin issues, adoption and foster care questions, abandonment feelings, and communication or commitment struggles. He is familiar with working through body image concerns, caregiver stress, and relationship dynamics tied to kink and alternative sex culture. He practices in New Jersey and meets people in English.
The focus is on clear steps you can try between sessions, and on building skills that help in daily life.
How targeted approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns formed in early relationships and how they show up now. Online sessions can be used to notice repeating interaction styles and to practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety or low mood. That makes it easy to try short exercises between sessions, like tracking thoughts or testing new behaviors.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review your goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This collaborative process means clients help shape the focus and pace of therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers a fuller conversational experience, while phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between meetings or fit brief sessions into a busy day. These options make it simpler to maintain regular contact, try homework exercises, and build consistency in care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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