Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Depression
How Stefan works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Tennessee, California
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Stefan
Stefan Bain is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with three decades of clinical experience. He focuses on sexual concerns alongside related issues such as anger, addiction, anxiety, and depression. Stefan aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can speak openly about what’s worrying them and start to make practical changes.
He uses straightforward conversation and evidence-informed methods to address performance concerns, compulsive sexual behaviors, infidelity, and questions about sexual identity and fantasy.
Background and approach
Sessions often look at the life stressors that keep problems stuck, including sleep disruption, substance use, work strain, and relationship patterns. Stefan blends approaches like cognitive behavioral work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), attachment-informed ideas, and client-centered techniques. He adapts language and exercises to each person so tools feel useful in daily life rather than academic or abstract.
In sessions he focuses on clear skills you can try between meetings - communication strategies, behavior experiments, emotion regulation tools, and ways to shift unhelpful thinking. He helps people track small changes so progress becomes visible. With a background that includes training at major universities and thirty years in the field, Stefan brings seasoned judgment and practical problem-solving to complex, sensitive topics.
His practice is based in Tennessee and he conducts sessions in English.
What Stefan works with
Everything Stefan lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Stefan's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Stefan lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Stefan uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then choose actions that match their values. This approach is useful when people want to change unhelpful patterns or confront painful emotions without avoidance.He also uses Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how past relationships shape current intimacy and trust. That work helps when communication, closeness, or emotional distance are connected to earlier experiences and relationship patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stefan will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what methods feel most helpful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is good for full conversations and skill demonstrations, phone is useful when bandwidth or movement is limited, chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
Questions people ask about Stefan
What issues does Stefan address in therapy?
He helps people with sexual concerns such as performance problems, compulsive sexual behaviors, and infidelity, and with related issues including anger, anxiety, addiction, depression, and sleep problems.
What is his therapy style like?
Sessions are described as warm and interactive, focusing on clear conversation and practical exercises to try between appointments.
How much clinical experience does he have?
He has 30 years of experience working as a psychotherapist and draws on long practice when helping people with complex or sensitive concerns.
Where is he licensed and located?
He holds LCSW credentials listed as CA LCSW and TN LCSW and is based in Tennessee.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English, and he accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.