About Gerald
Gerald Sandeford is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 22 years of experience. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, and the consequences those struggles can have on relationships and substance use. Gerald aims to make the first step feel manageable and straightforward for someone feeling overwhelmed.
He works with adults and adolescents and uses clear, practical conversations to sort out what is most pressing.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at reducing daily stress and building skills to handle anxious moments. Gerald listens for what matters most to each person and sets small, achievable goals. His background includes methods that help change unhelpful thinking and teach emotional regulation.
He often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to reshape patterns of thought. Mindfulness practices are woven in to increase awareness and reduce reactivity. For people with intense emotional reactions or recurring trauma memories, he uses elements of trauma-focused work and approaches that help process difficult experiences.
Skills from dialectical behavior approaches are used when stronger emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Gerald favors short-term, solution-oriented steps when that fits the situation, while also making room for deeper work when needed. He aims to create a steady pace so clients can notice progress.
If someone wants practical tools for anxiety or help navigating the fallout of trauma, Gerald focuses on building usable skills and clearer next steps.
How Gerald Uses Goal-Focused Methods Online
Gerald often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that feed anxiety and depression. CBT breaks down problems into steps and gives concrete tools to try between sessions. He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal responses when emotions run high.Finding the right method is part of the work. Gerald approaches treatment collaboratively and will discuss options with each person. He helps clients choose techniques that match their goals, symptoms, and daily routines rather than pushing a single approach.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow for ongoing support, brief updates, and checking in between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, school, or caregiving schedules, while keeping focus on skill building and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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