Meet Bob Neve: His Journey, Training, And Approach To Therapy

I’m really excited to share the first episode in what I hope will become a regular podcast series for Support for Stepdads. For this first conversation, I had the privilege of sitting down with Bob Neve, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). Bob, along with his wife Sheri—who is also an LPC—created the course Save Your Marriage, and together they bring years of wisdom, experience, and heart to helping couples heal and reconnect.

The following are the questions I asked and the associated time stamp.

1. To start us off, can you tell our audience a bit about yourself and the work you do
today as a therapist? – 0:50 – 5:06
2. What originally drew you to the field of therapy and mental health? Was there a
defining moment or gradual pull? – 5:07 – 7:20
3. Before becoming a therapist, what was your professional or personal path like?
(Education, earlier careers, life experiences, etc.) – 5:07 – 7:20
4. Can you walk us through your training and licensure journey—and what that
process was really like for you? – 5:07 – 7:20
5. Were there any mentors, professors, or clinicians who had a significant influence
on how you practice today? – 7:20 – 11:13
6. Early in your career, what types of clients or challenges did you find yourself
working with most often? – 15:32 – 17:15
7. Was there a particular experience early on that affirmed, “Yes – this is exactly
what I’m meant to be doing”? – 18:20 – 20:44
8. How has your approach to therapy evolved from when you first started to how
you work with clients today? – 21:48 – 30:34
10. For listeners who may be unfamiliar with therapy—or hesitant about it—what do you wish more people understood about what therapists actually do? – 33:29 – 36:19

11. How would you suggest someone go about selecting a therapist? – 36:20 – 38:29

12. I understand you’re available for therapy remotely do you notice any differences between a remote therapy session versus an in person? – 38:30 – 40:51

13. If a listener wanted to reach out to you, what would be the best way to do so? – 40:52 – 42:39

14. What motivated me to reach to you is your course “Save Your Marriage” could you just give us an overview of that? – 42:40 – 49:02

15. Have you worked and do you work with blended families? – 51:36 – 51:17

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About the author

In 1995, Gerardo became a stepdad to two children, a boy and a girl, ages 14 and 10. In 2011, he started the website Support for Stepfathers to reverse the nearly 70% divorce rate for blended families in the United States. His website is to help and inspire stepfathers, aspiring stepfathers, and the women who love them worldwide. You can follow Support for Stepdads on Twitter and Facebook.