About Stephen
Stephen Herz is a licensed mental health counselor with more than 11 years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical ways to reduce stress, anxiety, addiction-related struggles, and low self-esteem so clients can make clearer choices in daily life. He meets each person where they are and adapts his style to their needs.
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. He aims to help people understand patterns that keep them stuck and build skills to change them.
Background and approach
Stephen uses methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. He combines these to address trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, anger, and coping with life changes. He also supports people managing bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, career stress, and process addictions such as porn, exercise, or gambling.
Veteran and armed forces issues are listed as an area of focus. Stephen earned a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Nova Southeastern University in Miami, Florida. He holds a Florida LMHC credential and practices with attention to each person’s goals and pace.
People who work with him can expect straightforward conversation, step-by-step skill building, and collaborative planning to help them move forward.
Approaches for online progress and practical change
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and to discover their own solutions rather than following a set plan.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change behaviors that contribute to addictions or stress.
Mindfulness Therapy adds simple attention and breathing practices to help people manage intense emotions and stay present during difficult moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephen will collaborate with each person to try methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust the plan as things change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits, phone sessions work well for lower data use, live chat suits quick check-ins or brief coaching, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, short-form contact between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, or recovery routines while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English