About Geoffrey
Geoffrey Stratton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of experience practicing in Texas. He focuses on helping people who feel stuck by talking through what matters to them and finding workable steps forward. Geoffrey aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
He helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and problems with motivation and self-esteem. He also supports people working through relationship strain, addiction concerns, and life transitions.
Background and approach
His approach is respectful and down-to-earth, and he adapts sessions to each persons needs. Geoffrey uses common-sense strategies alongside evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioral ideas and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. He also draws on acceptance and commitment concepts and attachment-based ways of thinking when they fit a clients goals.
Sessions typically focus on practical skills, clear goals, and steady progress. Conversations are collaborative. Geoffrey listens for what matters most and then helps set small, achievable steps toward change.
He emphasizes compassion and sensitivity while helping people build skills to cope with stress and anxiety. People working with him can expect straightforward language and a plan that matches their daily life. Geoffrey offers support for a wide range of concerns and helps people move from feeling overwhelmed to feeling more able to handle what comes next.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while moving toward what matters most. Its useful for anxiety, low motivation, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and behavior change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Geoffrey will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest approaches that match those needs. The plan can change over time based on what helps most, and decisions are made collaboratively.
Online therapy offers flexibility and fits busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face without travel. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during short breaks. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, coaching-style notes, or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity and try different formats until the best fit is found.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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