About Steven
Steven Kirkilas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. He speaks plainly and aims to meet people where they are. He focuses on practical steps that feel manageable for daily life.
He uses somatic approaches to tune into how the body holds stress and trauma. He also uses client-centered methods to shape sessions around each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are part of his toolkit for shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.
Background and approach
Steven has seven years of clinical experience and holds the credential CSW alongside his LCSW. He practices from Wisconsin and offers sessions in English. He has worked with a wide range of concerns including grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD, and first responder challenges.
In sessions he blends mindfulness with body-focused work and practical skills. That can mean simple breathing, noticing body sensations, and testing small behaviour changes between meetings. He aims for a calm pace and clear steps so people can try things between sessions.
If someone wants to begin, the process starts with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Steven presents therapy as a collaborative process where the client’s pace guides the work.
Ways somatic, client-centered, and CBT work online
Steven uses somatic work to notice how stress and trauma show up in the body. Online sessions can guide breath, movement, and grounding practices while tracking those bodily responses in real time. This approach often helps with anxiety, trauma reactions, and stress-related symptoms.Client-centered therapy in his practice means the session follows the person’s priorities. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps clients set the agenda. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers concrete tools to reframe thoughts and try new behaviours between sessions, which works well over video or messaging when homework and tracking are needed.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to decide which approaches fit their goals and comfort level. That choice can change over time as needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for movement or grounding work. Phone sessions provide a simpler option when video isn’t practical. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions and use short prompts or exercises in real time. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical skills and body awareness.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Washington
- Languages
- English