And the God of Grace who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself restore you and make you strong, firm, and steadfast. To Him be the power for ever and ever, Amen (1 Peter 5:10).

Specialty Areas

Steve Rossi focuses on several areas in his private practice. He has worked in a variety of settings with different age groups and mental health issues throughout his career. He has particular expertise in the following areas.


Men

He does a lot of work with men’s issues. Steve helps men examine and resolve problems in their relationships with their wives, children, families, work, and friendships. He helps them work through their anger, anxiety, stress, and depression related to life pressures and commitments. Steve helps men resolve transitions and midlife crises. Many men come to Steve for help overcoming sexual addiction. He accomplishes this through individual therapy. Steve is especially interested in working with fathers. He enjoys helping men improve their fathering, resolve conflicts, and restore their relationships with their children. He also likes helping men answer the tough questions in life as they clarify their roles and relationships with God, family, work, and friends. He is committed to helping men remain promise keepers.

Women

Steve helps women address many different types of problems. He does therapy with women suffering from anxiety and depression related to stress and family issues. Steve helps women deal with the root causes of emotional problems related to sexual and physical abuse. He enables women to examine, understand, heal, and break free from the pain and bondage of past truama in their lives. He also works with many women struggling in their relationships with their husbands, boyfriends, and families. Many of these women are stuck in negative, abusive, conflictual relationships. He helps them set appropriate boundaries and develop healthy relationships with others.

Children and Adolescents

Steve has worked with children and adolescents his entire career. He likes to see them overcome the internal and external barriers in their lives. Steve works with children and adolescents who struggle acacemically and behaviorally. Many have difficulty making developmental transitions. He has particular expertise in helping students resolve underlying issues related to their underachievement or school failure. Steve enjoys helping children and adolescents overcome anxiety and depression. He likes to help troubled children and adolescents become healthy and whole. Steve works hard to facilitate positive, nurturing, appropriate parent-child relationships. He likes helping young adults make they way toward healthy, responible, independence. Steve does a lot of crisis intervention with children/adolescents and their families too.

Crisis

Steve is committed to helping people work through tragedy, catastrophic losses, and traumatic events in their lives. He is experienced in crisis intervention and providing disaster mental health services. Steve sees people dealing with grief and loss. He helps them go through the grieving process, toward healing and integration through Christ. He is compassionate and sensitive to those in grief.

Marriage and Family

Steve fights hard to preserve marriages and families. He believes that God hates divorce and is committed to helping build strong marriages and families from the beginning. He enjoys working with couples in premarriage counseling to determine their compatiblity, resolve differences, and prepare for marriage. Steve sees many couples in counseling to heal, restore, and reconcile their marriages. He likes helping couples resolve conflicts. Steve does a considerable amount of family counseling too.

He works with families to make adjustments, transitions, resolve conflicts, heal emotional wounds and restore relationships. He is also knowledgeable and esperienced in working with blended families work through their issues and conflicts. Steve delights in helping single parent families make adjustments and resolve problems unique to their situation. Steve does a lot of work with single parent families. His heart especially goes out to the single moms and dads raising their children in our troubled world today.

Though you made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again. (Psalm 71:20)

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