About Christopher
Christopher Gerou is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. He brings three decades of counseling experience to sessions and focuses on plain, practical support for real problems. He talks with clients about their goals and offers straightforward steps they can try between meetings.
He uses a client-centered style that begins by listening and learning what matters most to the person in front of him.
Background and approach
From there he often applies solution-focused strategies to set clear, achievable goals and small experiments to test what helps. He also draws on trauma-focused methods when past events are blocking daily life or relationships. Christopher completed a master’s degree in counseling at Concordia University Wisconsin and a second master’s in thanatology, the study of death and loss.
He also holds an undergraduate degree in sociology from Carthage College. His background includes work with vocational rehabilitation programs and roles in educational settings. Sessions tend to be practical and directed but still warm and respectful.
He emphasizes communication, nondiscrimination, and trust as cornerstones of his work. People come for help with parenting strain, career stress, identity and LGBT concerns, caregiving burdens, trauma, and coping with loss. Therapy with him often mixes talk, clear goal-setting, and gentle exposure to difficult memories when needed.
He encourages small, manageable steps and checks progress together as therapy continues.
How his approaches work online
Christopher uses client-centered work to begin online sessions by listening closely to what matters most to the person. That approach focuses on the client's priorities and builds sessions around those concerns and values.He also uses solution-focused therapy to set clear, short-term goals and test practical changes between sessions. This method suits online work well because it emphasizes measurable steps and quick adjustments based on what works.
Trauma-focused techniques are applied when past events interfere with day-to-day functioning. Online sessions can introduce these methods gradually and at a pace the client chooses, with attention to safety and readiness.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. He works collaboratively to identify which methods fit a client's needs, goals, and preferences, and he adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients can expect shared decision making about the direction of care.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging lets people touch base between appointments or keep therapy brief and convenient.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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