Stefan Allen-Hickey, LCSW
Specialties: relationship issues, anxiety and depression.
Rates: $250 · individual session | $300 · couples session
Stefan Allen-Hickey, LCSW, practices an emotion-focused, experiential approach rooted in AEDP, helping high-functioning people slow down, reconnect with what they truly feel and want, and break old patterns so they can enjoy more aliveness, closeness, and satisfaction. His specialties are anxiety, depression and burnout. Individual sessions are $250 and couples sessions are $300.
“I became a therapist out of curiosity about the dreams that go unrealized in so many lives. Over years of training, I’ve explored methods that guide adults toward their deepest desires and loosen the habits that keep vitality out of reach.”
Q & A
How do you describe your counseling style?
My approach is warm, collaborative, and relational. I support high achievers who handle everything well on paper yet sense that a spark is missing, guiding them to tune into the inner world they’ve learned to tuck away. By gently untangling long-standing habits and protective strategies, clients begin to hear their desires and enjoy more energy, closeness, and purpose.
What kind of patients do you work best with?
I work best with accomplished, goal-oriented adults who are asking whether the life they’ve built is really theirs. Many feel pulled between what others expect and what stirs something real inside them. Together, we sort through those competing voices so you can recognize your own priorities and move forward with greater clarity and aliveness.
What books have made the biggest impact on your life?
There are too many to choose from, but I keep returning to Geoff Dyer, especially Otherwise Known as the Human Condition and But Beautiful, along with Michel Houellebecq and Roberto Bolaño. Each of them, in very different ways, writes about longing, disconnection, and the search for meaning, which may say something about why I do this work. And for pure joy, A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.
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