About Stephen
Stephen Dansiger is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California with 20 years of clinical experience. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
He also supports those coping with compassion fatigue and the frustration that comes with feeling stuck. He keeps conversations direct and respectful.
Sessions are shaped to each person's needs rather than following a rigid script. Stephen focuses on practical steps a person can try between sessions as well as talking through what’s happening now.
His background includes two decades of work with people facing trauma, addiction-related issues, and family-of-origin concerns. He draws on established therapeutic techniques that aim to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve daily functioning.
He pays attention to attachment, abandonment wounds, and patterns that repeat across relationships. Stephen often helps people dealing with isolation, fatherhood questions, and midlife shifts.
He also addresses multicultural issues and aging or geriatric concerns when they come up. His approach balances real-world problem solving with attention to emotional experience.
People who meet with him can expect a calm, steady voice in sessions and a focus on clear goals. He invites clients to try things between sessions and to revisit the plan if something is not working.
That makes the work practical and adaptable to each person’s life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Stephen draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on reducing distress and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach he uses helps people process trauma and strong emotions through guided conversation and paced exposure to difficult memories, which can lessen the intensity of those memories over time. Another approach emphasizes building skills for managing anxiety and anger through practical tools like breathing, grounding exercises, and activity planning to break cycles of avoidance.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to identify which strategies fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Treatment plans are adjusted as progress is made so the approach stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for brief check-ins or more frequent support. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English