Stephen Porter

Specialties

Couples counseling - Addressing relationship challenges and life transitions; strengthening communication and feelings of security, desire, connection, and love

Trauma - Coping and healing after threatening or scary events. These can be sudden, such as witnessing accidents or experiencing sexual, verbal, emotional, or physical abuse; or they can be gradual, as in the case with trauma experienced via recurring behaviors over longer periods of time (what we sometimes call Developmental Trauma)

Work stress - Managing overwhelming stress and expectations; increasing effective ways of restoring and maintaining emotional stability and health; addressing challenging relationships with coworkers and bosses

Depression - Providing support and promoting healing of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life

Entrepreneur mental health - Processing through the emotional highs and lows of running a business; learning about one’s values and exploring how these values impact the decisions that one makes for the business

Cult Recovery - Recovery from coercive control, cultic, and/or spiritual abuse