Welcome to Growth Effect!

Steve Carleton is a seasoned Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Addiction Specialists. For the past 16 years he has served individuals, families, students, and businesses in many capacities. Click the button below to find out more about how Growth Effect can help.

We offer a wide range of services from focused mental health and substance use individual therapy to helping your business improve processes and grow. Individually, my specialty is substance use and trauma. I have been a professor in the graduate school of social work teaching therapy and practice standards since 2017. Additionally, I was a therapist and leader at the Department of Veterans Affairs for a decade. I offer a wide range of therapies catered to your individual needs. My overarching goal is to help people find direction and get their life headed in a better direction. I do not believe people need years of therapy and prefer to get focused on solutions as quickly as possible.