A companion for your journey.

Steve Ponce

Founder of HRC, MACC, LPC (SC 9753), LCMHC (NC 16791), NCC

Passion

Life is hard. Many seek quick resolutions to deeply impacting expeiences. Steve seeks to affirm the uniqueness of each individual and to help clients realize their inner strengths and goodness in order to flourish. Steve is a curious companion that wants to come along side you in this current season of your life to assist you in meeting your personal goals. He considers it an honor to enter the lives of his clients and witness their healing, growth, and development.

Roots

Steve lives in Fort Mill, SC with his wife of 24 years, Jessica. They have seven children. He enjoys date nights with his wife, sports with his children, fellowship with friends, jazz, theater, and cutting grass.

Steve counsels youth and adults. He also conducts support groups, workshops and seminars for the community. For over 18 years, Steve served in a local church as the Youth Pastor.  He graduated from Asbury University, has taught classes for Home Schoolers and Christian Schools, and is an ordained pastor.  

Steve recieved his Master of Arts in Christian Counseling(MACC) from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2021 and is a member of the American Counseling Association and a National Certified Counselor.

While Steve’s Master’s education was at a seminary, he desires to meet each client where they are. Spiritual or religous integration is completely up to the client. Steve’s therapuetic approach is welcoming of those experienceing faith transitions, religious deconstruction, and/or spiritual unceratinty.

Approach to Therapy

Steve focuses on promoting deeply rooted, lasting change by taking a holistic perspective. Since each client has a unique story, his theoretical approach is shaped from an integrative model. He incorporates evidence based psychological theory with neurological research and a physiological knowledge base. He seeks to personalize services to blend the individual strengths unique to each client with the theory and research specific to the reasons that brings that client to seek services. Steve takes into consideration that we are social creatures, and that minority stress, adverse childhood events and the culture of our greater community all impact us.

Steve blends a variety of research based techniques, often pulling from Person-Centered, Psychodynamic, Systems, Existential, Experiential, and Somatic Models. This perspective stresses the importance of understanding the personal meaning created throughout each of our lives. Often this meaning is embedded in unconscious, symbolic and socialized beliefs and behaviors that can serve as forces in our lives that often we “can't explain” or we “just feel.”

Clients

Steve views each client as a unique dynamic individual and takes time to establish a personalized relationship that allows for deep understanding of both the person as well as the environment in which they are navigating. His goal is to focus on helping to overcome obstacles without becoming consumed with diagnostic labels.

Specializations

Faith Transitions/Deconstruction

Spiritual Abuse/Trauma

Adolescent & Young Adult Issues

Parenting Teens