About Geri
Geri Burgess is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She creates a calm space where clients can talk about what feels hard and begin to build practical tools. Geri emphasizes straightforward support and steady guidance for people facing worry, low mood, or life transitions.
In sessions she listens closely and follows the client’s lead. Geri uses client-centered methods to make room for each person’s values and goals.
Background and approach
She combines that with cognitive behavioral techniques to notice unhelpful thinking and develop new coping habits. Her approach also draws on mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding momentum for change.
Geri adapts these methods to each person’s situation rather than using one fixed plan. Geri has worked across a range of concerns including relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem challenges, sleep problems, and caregiver stress. She also supports people navigating identity issues such as LGBT concerns and gender dysphoria.
Her practice attends to both emotional relief and practical problem solving. Based in Alabama, she meets with people through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions aim to be useful from the first few meetings, focusing on clear goals and small, achievable steps.
Geri encourages honesty, patience, and steady effort as clients work toward more calm and balance.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Geri uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, listening-first environment where the client’s values guide the work. This approach is useful when someone needs space to organize thoughts and decide what matters most.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT can help with anxiety, sleep issues, and mood problems by teaching concrete skills to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Geri works together with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals, comfort level, and daily life. That collaboration means plans are adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations when face-to-face cues matter. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick updates, brief coaching, or steady support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Alabama
- Languages
- English
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