Steve Scarborough , LPC

Steve Scarborough, LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor), is a Missouri-based clinician with 10 years of experience supporting people through addiction, relationship struggles, mood concerns, trauma, and major life changes. He practices from an integrative perspective that blends psychoanalytic ideas with cognitive behavioral strategies, DBT skills, motivational interviewing, and positive psychology techniques to meet each person where they are and build practical tools for change.

As an integrational dual-diagnosis therapist, he works with co-occurring substance use and mental health concerns and applies trauma-informed care principles when addressing PTSD, grief, and abuse. He also brings experience with group-based illness management and recovery methods and maintains familiarity with relapse prevention models and 12-step approaches. Steve incorporates faith-informed options when clients request that focus while aligning all care with evidence-based practices and current research.

Steve approaches therapy with a client-centered orientation that emphasizes collaboration, practical skill-building, and attention to the role of attachment, family history, and communication patterns in present difficulties. His areas of focus include addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, anxiety and depression, grief, parenting and fatherhood concerns, ADHD, bipolar challenges, and caregiver or compassion fatigue. Steve offers a balanced mix of coaching and clinical support aimed at helping people develop insight, reduce symptoms, and improve daily functioning.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Steve Scarborough

Steve often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which helps people clarify personal values and commit to actions that align with those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions.

He also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional responses. This approach can help with intimacy-related issues, codependency, abandonment concerns, and family-of-origin dynamics.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a core element of his work when targeting unhelpful thinking patterns and building concrete coping skills for anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and relapse prevention. CBT focuses on practical strategies that produce measurable change in daily functioning.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Steve collaborates with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences and will adapt methods over time so the work remains a good fit. Licensed professionals and therapists can deliver these approaches effectively through remote formats.

Online therapy offers flexibility by allowing sessions by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit care into a busy life, access consistent support across distances, and use multiple communication styles according to what feels most helpful.