Steven Ford, NCPS

Steven Ford is a warm, empathic and trauma-informed integrative therapist and clinical supervisor with more than 14 years of hands-on clinical experience. He combines a compassionate, client-centered stance with clear-eyed clinical judgment to support people navigating addiction, trauma, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem and related issues. Steven has worked across a variety of therapeutic settings and brings extensive experience facilitating both individual and group work for people from diverse backgrounds.

He is accredited by the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS), a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists, and currently serves as Counselling Coordinator at Change Grow Live (CGL) Recovery Service. In that role he leads a diverse team of counsellors, guides therapeutic interventions and helps maintain high standards of clinical practice.

Steven's practice draws on an integrative mix of approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy. He works with a wide range of concerns such as stress, addictions, trauma and abuse, post-traumatic stress, process addictions, attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication problems, fatherhood issues, guilt and shame, isolation, life purpose and men's midlife challenges. His style blends empathy, honesty and curiosity with a commitment to ethical practice.