Steve Hammer, LSCSW

Steve Hammer, LSCSW, focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, low mood, or trauma. He brings 40 years of practice in Kansas and aims to meet each person with respect and compassion. He works to tailor conversations and plans to what matters most to the individual.

People come for help with mood concerns like depression or bipolar symptoms. He also addresses family tensions, blended family challenges, and problems that follow trauma or abuse. Common everyday problems he helps with include anxiety, isolation, shame, and relationship communication issues.

Steve uses practical, evidence-informed approaches and adapts them to each person’s needs. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with attention to what is working and what needs to change. He balances helping people cope now with steps that support longer-term change.

Over four decades he has worked with a wide range of life problems, including infidelity, divorce and separation, fatherhood issues, and struggles with control or codependency. He also has experience addressing obsessive-compulsive patterns and dissociation when they arise alongside other concerns.

In sessions he listens first, then helps people set clear, manageable steps toward their goals. He encourages people to try small changes, notice what helps, and adjust the plan as needed. Taking the first step can feel hard, and he aims to make that step straightforward and practical.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience, then shaping conversations around their goals and values. It helps people who need a nonjudgmental space to sort out feelings and decide what matters most.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood and stress. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and obsessive thinking.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It combines acceptance of current experience with strategies to change behaviors that cause problems, useful for people who struggle with strong mood swings or impulsive reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about symptoms, goals, and what feels most useful, then suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people join from quieter surroundings. Licensed professionals adapt these methods for remote work so you can practice skills and track progress between meetings.