About Steven
Steven Harris offers support for people facing relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, depression, anxiety, and stress. He also helps with addictions, grief, intimacy-related concerns, sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Steven has 34 years of clinical experience and holds social work licenses in Michigan and Florida.
He approaches work with respect for each person’s story and strengths.
Background and approach
Steven keeps sessions straightforward and focused. He listens first, then helps people set clear goals. He uses practical strategies to manage symptoms and to rebuild damaged connections.
Sessions are paced to match what each person needs in the moment. His background includes long experience across clinical settings over several decades. That history shapes a calm, steady style that aims to reduce overwhelm and restore daily routines.
He draws on methods that emphasize relationships, present-moment awareness, and workable thinking changes. In sessions Steven often combines attachment-focused work with client-centered direction and cognitive approaches. He helps people notice patterns, try new ways of relating, and practice small behavior changes.
Mindfulness techniques are also offered to ease stress and improve coping between sessions. Steven is licensed as a Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW, in Michigan and as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, in Florida. Sessions are conducted in English and available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, a person selects Start Therapy, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules sessions based on availability.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape trust and closeness. Online sessions can help people notice interaction patterns and try new ways of connecting in real time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it works well through talking, guided exercises, and between-session tasks. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and stress, and these practices can be coached effectively over video or phone.Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try approaches and adjust as needed. Clients and therapist check progress together and shift strategies when something is not working.
Online formats offer practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when discussing sensitive relationship or family topics. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio-only check-in fits a schedule. Live chat and text-based messaging let people touch base between sessions, get brief coaching, or handle quick check-ins without a full appointment. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, and everyday demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Michigan
- Languages
- English