Steven Van Schaick, LCSW

Steven Van Schaick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and trauma specialist with more than a decade of experience supporting people facing significant mental health challenges. LCSW stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a credential that authorizes clinical practice and therapeutic care. He brings a practical, field-focused approach developed over 10 years of direct work with complex cases.

Rather than limiting his work to an office couch, he built a career meeting people where they were. His background includes residential treatment, in-patient psychiatric settings, and in-home counseling with high-risk families. Those roles shaped a practice oriented toward rapid, effective intervention in demanding situations.

Having worked extensively with the high-risk community, he has encountered a wide range of difficult presentations and acknowledges the professional wear that can come from that work. He intentionally specializes in clients who have been dealt the most challenging hands and is comfortable supporting people in crisis or transition.

His areas of focus include depressive episodes, panic and anxiety, strained family relationships, parenting concerns, acute life stressors, complex psychiatric presentations, spiritual issues, and traumatic experiences. While he draws on multiple evidence-based strategies, he emphasizes that healing is not one-size-fits-all and adapts his approach to each person’s needs.

Steven differentiates between lighter counseling through messaging and more involved therapy that explores underlying patterns and sustained causes. When deeper work is needed, he offers comprehensive sessions to identify what maintains a problem and then moves to live sessions as readiness and goals indicate, attending to both mind and body in the process.

For those skeptical about therapy or who do not identify as “mushy feelings” people, he frames treatment as relearning balance and restoring optimal functioning rather than dwelling on emotion alone. He views the therapeutic relationship and the trust clients place in his care as among his most important professional strengths.