About Steven
Steven Paro is a licensed clinical social worker with decades of experience helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, or life changes. He speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can take. He listens for strengths and helps clients build on what already works for them.
Steven uses straightforward, client-centered methods that focus on problems you bring to sessions. He encourages people to identify small changes they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
He also supports those coping with trauma and with shifts in mood or energy related to depression, bipolar disorder, or ADHD. Over a long career in New York he has worked with people facing substance use, eating concerns, and intimacy or relationship strain. He has supported clients wrestling with family of origin issues, forgiveness, guilt, and shame.
He also brings experience with abandonment, communication problems, and co-occurring difficulties. More recently he has worked with people on the autism spectrum and with severe intellectual disabilities, and he has experience helping clients reconnect with spiritual values when that matters to them.
Steven draws on a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs, including cognitive behavioral tools, acceptance practices, and trauma-focused work. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Conversations are meant to feel direct and compassionate.
The work aims to reduce distress and increase what matters most in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches available online
Steven commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take small, committed steps toward them while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and managing life transitions.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical approach that looks at patterns of thinking and behavior. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and trying different behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That conversation guides whether more acceptance-based, cognitive, or trauma-focused techniques are used in sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is often used for regular therapy conversations, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option or a quick check-in, and messaging or chat can support brief updates or reminders between sessions. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use methods that match each person’s comfort and schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 46 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English