About Steven
Steven Mondragon is a licensed clinical social worker in Utah with ten years of professional experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. Steven also supports people processing trauma and abuse and assists those wrestling with motivation and life purpose.
He believes people know their own stories and strengths. In sessions he listens first, then helps set clear, manageable goals. Conversations are practical and direct so progress is visible between visits.
Background and approach
Steven has experience with first responder concerns and understands how high-stress jobs can affect mood and relationships. He also works with issues like chronic pain and illness, attachment and abandonment wounds, dissociation, and feelings of isolation or guilt. His approach blends client-centered work with focused techniques such as cognitive behavioral and solution-focused strategies.
That mix helps people notice unhelpful patterns, test small changes, and build better coping skills. People who meet with him usually want straightforward guidance and tools they can use day to day. Sessions aim to be collaborative, paced to the individual, and shaped around whatever is most important to the client at that time.
Online approaches that fit your schedule
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building on your strengths; the therapist follows your lead and helps you set goals that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on processing past painful events at a pace that feels manageable and reducing the ways those memories affect daily life.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try techniques that seem to fit, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and therapist decide together which methods to keep using and which to change.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well when face-to-face conversation is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people message between sessions for brief updates or support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep consistent contact as progress is made.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- First responder issues
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English