About James
Dr. James Geidner helps people navigate stress, anxiety, ADHD concerns, depression, relationship strain, grief, and a wide range of life challenges. He brings two decades of clinical work to sessions and aims to make therapy practical and understandable for busy people.
He uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on skills that can be used between meetings, clearer thinking about patterns that cause pain, and small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
He works from several therapy styles so the work can match a person's needs rather than forcing one fixed method. Dr. Geidner has worked in psychiatric rehabilitation, child treatment centers, and university settings.
He also teaches as a Professor of Health and Counseling and maintains a independent practice. That mix of teaching, supervision, and clinical practice shapes a balanced, experience-grounded approach. In the room he pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns, day-to-day coping skills, and personal meaning.
He draws on approaches such as attachment-focused work, cognitive techniques for thinking and behavior, and client-centered listening to shape sessions. People who come to him often want help managing strong emotions, changing habits that cause trouble, or understanding how past experiences affect current relationships.
He aims to help clients develop clearer goals, practical coping tools, and more reliable routines that support daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Dr. Geidner commonly draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current connections and emotional reactions. This approach can be helpful for people who notice repeated patterns in close relationships or struggle with trust and closeness.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more effective alternatives. CBT is often useful for anxiety, mood changes, ADHD-related habits, sleep problems, and everyday coping skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist works collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's goals and preferences. That means trying things, reviewing what helps, and adjusting techniques so sessions feel relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for longer, interactive work that benefits from visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief coaching or timely support into a busy day. These options help people keep continuity of care, manage scheduling, and maintain regular practice between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- 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
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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