About Jerry
Jerry Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Georgia with 38 years of experience. He uses a client-centered approach to help people identify what feels stuck and set practical goals they want to reach. He listens without judgment and focuses on what each person finds most important in their life.
He has worked across many settings, including psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, addiction treatment programs, jails, and assisted living facilities.
Background and approach
That breadth of experience informs how he adapts sessions to different needs, such as managing anxiety, stress, or life changes. He also has a long history teaching psychology as an adjunct professor for twelve years. Jerry draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice patterns in thinking and behavior.
He assigns short, actionable homework between sessions to reinforce progress. These tasks are practical and tied to the goals the client sets for themselves. Common concerns he helps people address include depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, relationship and family challenges, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, and ADHD.
He also offers support around career issues, coping with major life transitions, and intimacy-related concerns. Sessions are tailored to each person’s pace and priorities. Jerry aims for straightforward, conversational therapy that breaks problems into manageable steps.
He encourages regular check-ins on progress and adjusts strategies as goals evolve.
How client-centered and CBT techniques work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters most to the client. Online sessions let the therapist and client talk through goals, decisions, and feelings in an open, conversational way. This approach helps when someone wants a supportive, nonjudgmental space to sort things out.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect emotions and daily life. Online CBT often includes brief exercises in session and homework between meetings to change unhelpful patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes, including ADHD-related challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try approaches that fit, and adjust plans as needed. Clients help decide which methods feel most useful, and strategies are changed if something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping a steady pace of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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