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Stephen Witte, LCSW

Relationships Family conflicts Trauma, Abuse Parenting issues Coaching
Video Messaging

About me

I am a clinical social worker, licensed in Connecticut and New York State. I have been helping individuals, couples and families grow and change over my entire 47 year career. Change can be frightening to contemplate, but in reality change is normal. People grow and change on a daily basis as we learn, adapt and grow wiser and gain more experience. Often, being human, we make mistakes or we find that our lives are not what we expected. This can result in depression and/or anxiety, or a disruption in our relationships with families and loved ones. It may even result in serious mental illness. As an experienced therapist, I help my patients become in charge of that change process, rather than victims of it. I can't solve your problems, but I can assist you to solve them yourself.

Professional experience

48 yrs in practice
Relationships Family conflicts Trauma, Abuse Parenting issues Coaching

Additional areas of focus: Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, LGBT, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Sleeping disorders, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Depression, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture, Blended family issues, Body image, Caregiver issues and stress, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, First responder issues, Forgiveness, Gender dysphoria, Guilt and shame, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Personality disorders, Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships, Post-traumatic stress, Self-love, Sexual assault and abuse, Sexual dysfunction, Sexuality, Social anxiety and phobia, Workplace issues, Young adult issues

Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Existential Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy

Services offered

Video
Messaging

License information

CT LCSW 658

NY LCSW PR020131-1

Reviews

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I’m grateful this platform exists and Steve is on it.

Written on Oct 01, 2025 after therapy with Stephen for 8 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, lgbt, relationship issues, family conflicts, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigu

He is considerate and knowledgeable about different things. He listens and helps me with the things I bring up. Thank you for all the help you have given.

Written on Jul 10, 2025 after therapy with Stephen for 9 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and self esteem

Love the attentiveness I get

Written on Jul 04, 2025 after therapy with Stephen for 4 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, parenting issues, anger management, compassion fatigue, and adhd

Stephen listens extents compassion and utilizes his own experiences to ensure that inward comfortable to open up.

Written on May 04, 2025 after therapy with Stephen for 3 weeks on issues concerning lgbt, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, and intimacy-related issues

Steve is a great listener; a wise and caring man, and helps me stay on topic

Written on May 02, 2025 after therapy with Stephen for 3 years and 8 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, career difficulties, coaching, and adhd

Steve is a highly intelligent, experienced, and thoughtful therapist and licensed counselor with many specialties to meet most client needs. He is a quick communicator (during and outside of therapy). He recommends resources he believes his clients will benefit from and shares those via the message function. He is a very dedicated retired from in-person practitioner who keeps up on training, schedules appointments at a wide variety of days and times, even close to holidays when some clients need the support. Strongly recommend Stephen Witte without reservations.

Written on Dec 27, 2024 after therapy with Stephen for 4 years and 4 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, lgbt, relationship issues, grief, parenting issues, anger management, and coping with life changes