About Steven
Steven Shampain is an LPC and Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on practical, insight-driven therapy. He centers sessions on understanding the reasons behind thoughts and behaviors, and on helping people find workable steps forward. He uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered work to help with stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
He also supports people coping with addiction, codependency, and issues around identity and relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be direct and hopeful. Conversations explore patterns, clarify values, and identify small changes that fit each person’s life. He is willing to share parts of his own story when it helps build trust and understanding.
Steven brings ten years of experience to his practice in Tennessee. He speaks English and holds credentials listed as LPC and LMHC. He is open to discussing topics some clinicians avoid, like politics or religion, when those subjects affect well-being.
People working with him can expect a practical focus on goals, resilience, and problem-solving. He helps parents, professionals, and others tackle career strain, anger, self-esteem, grief, and parenting strains through steady, collaborative work.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Steven often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people connect to their values and take small actions that matter, even when difficult emotions are present. He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and to practice new behaviors that reduce anxiety and depression. Client-centered therapy shapes how he listens and responds, prioritizing the person's experience and pacing the work to their needs.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to test methods and adjust course based on goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and shaping a plan together rather than following a fixed script.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain steady progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Washington
- Languages
- English