About Steven
Steven Goclowski is a California therapist with 30 years of experience. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, and compassion fatigue. He aims to make the first steps toward change feel safer and more manageable for each person who reaches out.
Steven keeps sessions straightforward and focused. He creates a calm space where people can say what they feel and think without judgment.
Background and approach
He listens for patterns that cause distress and helps people try practical ways to respond differently day to day. His work draws on several approaches to fit different needs. He uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
He applies cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. For trauma, he includes methods that target disturbing memories and their emotional impact. Steven has a long track record working with people in high-stress roles.
That includes those in social services, healthcare, law enforcement, and rescue work who face burnout and secondary trauma. He also supports people dealing with process or sexual addictions, isolation, and struggles with purpose and identity. Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative.
Steven helps people set clear goals, track small steps, and find what fits their life. He works in English and practices in California.
Online approaches that meet trauma and stress
Steven commonly draws on attachment-based work and cognitive-behavioral therapy in online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current responses and helps people try different ways of relating and feeling safer in relationships. Cognitive-behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.He also uses EMDR for trauma-focused work when appropriate. EMDR targets distressing memories and the reactions they trigger to reduce their intensity and the way they interfere with daily life. The choice of approach is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together which methods match the client’s needs, goals, and comfort level.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls let you work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, coaching, or ongoing processing without scheduling a full video visit. These options help people fit therapy into busy or unpredictable schedules and keep continuity when life is changing.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English