About Geoffrey
Geoffrey Stratton is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience practicing in Texas. He focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and challenges like ADHD. Geoffrey aims to meet each person where they are and talk through what matters most to them.
He uses straightforward conversation to build a plan that fits daily life. Sessions are shaped around the client's goals, whether that means improving self-esteem, coping with grief, or managing anger and addictions.
Background and approach
Geoffrey emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and steady support in the work he does. His background includes work with people dealing with trauma and abuse, parenting questions, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. He also addresses issues like intimacy, body image, sleep and eating concerns, and long-term conditions such as chronic pain and bipolar disorder.
Geoffrey draws on a range of therapy styles to match the needs in the room. When a client is unsure where to start, he helps narrow the focus into small, doable steps. He aims to make sessions useful between meetings so progress carries into everyday routines.
He also supports people navigating adoption and foster care matters, attachment concerns, and the stress of caregiving. Geoffrey offers a calm, practical approach that values the client’s voice. He encourages honest talk about setbacks and strengths and adapts plans as needs change over time.
Evidence-informed approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking action that fits those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, low motivation, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns and can be useful for relationship strain, attachment issues, and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Geoffrey will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. He adjusts techniques over time so sessions stay relevant and focused on what matters most to the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and communication styles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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