About Geraldine
Geraldine Leary is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience helping people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or worn down. She supports people facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, addiction, stress, and parenting challenges. Her style is direct but caring and focused on practical steps forward.
Geraldine believes most people already have the strengths they need. She helps clients notice those strengths and turn them into usable strategies.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on calming the mind, staying present, and taking manageable steps toward goals. Her approach draws from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. She tailors methods to each person's needs rather than using one fixed method.
That lets her match tools to the specific problem a person brings. Geraldine has worked across many settings including outpatient, residential, in-home, and hospital programs. She has experience with individual, group, family, and couples counseling and has supported people ages 12 to 95.
Those three decades of practice inform a flexible, experienced approach. In the room she listens for recurring patterns and internal dialogue that shape behavior. She describes her style as present and sometimes challenging in a constructive way.
Together with the client she sets clear goals and creates a step-by-step plan to reach them.
How Geraldine’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building the relationship so clients feel understood and can explore what matters most. It helps people gain clarity and confidence to make changes in their lives.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want tools to manage thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It is often used when strong emotions or relationship conflicts get in the way of daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose or combine methods that fit a person's goals, needs, and comfort. That decision is revisited as progress is made to keep the work practical and relevant.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different days and routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or texting can be used for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into work, school, or family life while still working with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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