Works with
- Anger
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
How Stephen works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Licensed in
- New Hampshire, Massachusetts
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Stephen
Stephen Burke is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with two decades of practice in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He helps people who are struggling with relationships, parenting, career questions, trauma, or strong emotions such as anger. Stephen aims to make therapy practical and focused on real-life changes people can notice week to week.
He uses a client-centered style so the person sets the goals. Sessions are interactive and non-judgmental.
Background and approach
He combines solution-focused work with trauma-informed care to build on strengths and reduce patterns that cause pain. Stephen has particular experience with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment questions, and blended family issues. He also supports people facing grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, and first responder stress.
His background includes work across a wide range of family-of-origin and relationship challenges. In sessions he helps people clarify priorities, try small experiments, and develop practical plans they can follow between meetings. That can look like reworking communication habits, easing parenting stress, managing anger, or creating steps toward career change.
Stephen approaches each person with respect and curiosity. He believes progress comes from steady, focused work and clear next steps. If someone prefers coaching-style check-ins or deeper trauma-focused work, he adapts the pace to match their needs.
What Stephen works with
Everything Stephen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Stephen's practice.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Stephen lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How his approaches work in online therapy
Stephen practices client-centered therapy and solution-focused methods alongside trauma-focused work. Client-centered therapy means conversations focus on what the person wants to change and progress moves at their pace; it helps when someone needs a safe space to sort priorities. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes small, practical steps and measurable goals so people can try changes between sessions and track results. Trauma-focused therapy targets the aftereffects of trauma and helps people reduce symptoms and rebuild stability when past events keep affecting daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to decide whether to emphasize coping skills, short-term problem solving, or deeper trauma processing. That plan can shift as needs and goals evolve, and he checks in regularly to make adjustments together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching-style work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and try different formats to see what helps most.
Questions people ask about Stephen
What kinds of concerns does Stephen address?
He supports people with relationship struggles, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, anger, anxiety, addictions, grief, and related issues like attachment and adoption questions.
How would you describe his therapeutic style?
His style is interactive and non-judgmental. He uses client-centered work so goals come from the person, combined with solution-focused steps and trauma-informed ideas.
What background and experience does he have?
He has 20 years of clinical experience working with relationship and trauma-related concerns, plus experience addressing adoption, blended family issues, and first responder stress.
Where is he licensed and practicing?
He is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with licensure in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and practices from New Hampshire.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.