About Geri
Geri Burgess is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and related concerns. She creates a warm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about what’s hard and begin to find clearer ways forward. She emphasizes practical steps and steady support rather than quick fixes.
Geri invites clients to describe everyday struggles and painful patterns. She listens for what matters most and works with each person to set simple, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Conversations often focus on improving sleep, managing anger, coping with grief, or navigating identity and relationship stressors. Her approach blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools. That means she follows the person’s lead while offering concrete strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help people reduce reactivity and build calm in daily life. Geri uses motivational interviewing to support people who feel stuck or unsure about change. She asks questions that help clarify values and strengthen commitment to goals.
Existential ideas are woven in when clients want to examine meaning, purpose, or big life questions. Geri has worked across a range of settings during her two decades in the field. She aims to be straightforward, compassionate, and practical in sessions.
People who want gentle challenge and real-world tools often find her style a good fit.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person first and helps people feel heard. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what she hears, and supports each person's own problem-solving. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, mood, and attention. Mindfulness therapy adds simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and help with sleep and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to match tools to real-life needs rather than using one fixed method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone sessions can require less bandwidth and work well for check-ins, while live chat and messaging suit brief updates or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy days and different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Alabama
- Languages
- English
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