About Geoffrey
Geoffrey Golia is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience helping people make meaningful changes. He aims to be warm, compassionate, and flexible in sessions. Geoffrey draws on his own experience as a former therapy patient to shape how he connects with others.
He earned a Master of Social Work from New York University’s Silver School of Social Work in 2012. That training led him to work with a wide range of people in settings such as community programs and clinical services in New York.
Background and approach
His background includes work with people impacted by substance use, justice involvement, foster care, and a variety of mood and trauma-related concerns. Geoffrey uses a mix of approaches to suit each person’s needs. He incorporates Attachment-Based techniques to look at relationship patterns and how history shapes current bonds.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors. He also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Motivational Interviewing when coping skills and motivation are central goals. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer goals, and stronger emotional awareness.
Geoffrey often supports people coping with stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, relationship strain, and life transitions. He also works on issues like attachment wounds, fatherhood concerns, and midlife reorientation. People who do best with Geoffrey tend to want a collaborative process and concrete tools alongside reflective conversation.
He aims to help people notice patterns, try small changes, and build toward a more purposeful life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In short sessions this can help people recognize repeating dynamics in friendships and romantic relationships and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. Online work with CBT often centers on short exercises, homework, and clear goals to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is usually a team effort. Geoffrey will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try approaches that fit. He adjusts tools over time so sessions stay useful and aligned with what the person wants to accomplish.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be good for brief check-ins or ongoing encouragement. These options increase flexibility for scheduling and help people keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New York, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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