Steven works with adults and couples suffering from acute and complex trauma, anxiety, stress, depression, identity struggles, and relationship struggles. They treat from a trauma-oriented perspective, including a strong focus on “bottom-up” processing.

Steven is a queer person who is affirming to non-monogamous relationship styles, is sex and kink positive, and is gender affirming. They counsel from a framework of pro-liberation, anti-oppression, and intersectional feminism.

Treatment with Steven includes the following:
• Receive education on nervous system regulation, relational trauma, attachment, mindfulness, and the holistic nature of spiritual-emotional wellness.
• Develop somatic skills and “resources” to better cope with and manage emotional distress.
• Trauma-informed trauma reprocessing of acute and complex trauma, including using EMDR interventions.
• Develop self-awareness of your behavioral, relational, and psychological patterns.
• Help you organize your thoughts and feelings around difficult life situations, and increase behaviors in alignment with your value system.
• Work toward a life of resilience, meaning, empowerment, joy, connectedness, and regulation.

Steven graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia with his master’s in Counseling Psychology. They have provided direct clinical work in the human services field for 13 years, from inner city Philadelphia to rural Alaska. They have worked as an ACT Team Lead where they supervised a number of clinical staff.