About Geraldine
Geraldine (Geri) Godbolt is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who brings eight years of clinical experience to her work. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, and related concerns. Geri aims to help people identify one concern at a time while recognizing when problems overlap and need concurrent attention.
Her sessions are collaborative and practical. She asks clients to take part both in sessions and through short homework like journals or exercises.
Background and approach
Progress is checked regularly and treatment plans are adjusted when needed. Geri emphasizes steady, realistic steps rather than quick fixes. Geri uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered methods, and existential ideas. These tools are blended to address symptoms and build new ways of coping. She has experience with a wide range of life stresses such as grief, caregiver strain, substance use, isolation, and first responder issues.
She also supports people dealing with identity concerns like gender dysphoria and LGBT-related stress, as well as body image, abandonment, and control issues. Geri trained in psychology and counseling and has pursued advanced study in trauma and assessment. She has worked as a lead clinician in residential care with adults and parents, helping people move from crisis toward greater stability.
Her approach centers on walking alongside clients while they try out new skills.
Practical approaches for online care and skill building
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small committed actions toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and certain mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills for intense emotional reactions and coping under stress.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and suggest techniques from these models. Together they adjust the plan over time based on what helps most in real life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversations and teaching of skills. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or need less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework review, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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