About Jeffrey
Jeffrey "Jeff" Frommeyer is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 24 years of experience. He helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strains, parenting challenges, and major life changes. He aims to make starting therapy a simple, respectful process for anyone feeling overwhelmed.
Jeff listens first and adapts sessions to each person's situation. He uses conversational pacing and practical skills so clients can try small changes between meetings.
Background and approach
He is comfortable including a Christian perspective when that is helpful to the person seeking support. In sessions he draws on approaches that focus on the person's goals and present needs. Those methods include client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking, and mindfulness skills to reduce stress.
He also uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when they fit the work. Jeff has worked across many concerns connected to relationships and life transitions. His experience covers issues like attachment and abandonment, blended family and adoption matters, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, and communication difficulties.
He frames the work around achievable steps and clearer decision-making. People who choose Jeff can expect straightforward conversation, goal-oriented practice, and follow-up between sessions. He tailors plans to what each person says they want to change and helps them build habits that reduce anxiety and increase daily functioning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is said, and helps people clarify what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thought patterns and teaches skills to change thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety or stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions and improving coping in high-stress moments.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. They will try techniques and adjust the plan so it matches real-life needs and the pace the person wants.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well if video is not possible or when less bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while using the approaches described above to reduce anxiety and build coping skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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