About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Scarbrough is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. He offers straightforward, practical support for common struggles like depression, relationship strain, and addiction. Jeffrey writes treatment plans to match each person's situation and goals.
He has 17 years of professional experience and has spent a decade running intensive group work with adolescents. That experience informs his approach when helping young adults and adults with behavior and emotional challenges.
Background and approach
He also sees people concerned about parenting, blended family issues, and communication problems. Jeffrey blends familiar methods such as client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. Sessions often involve talking through patterns, trying small changes between meetings, and building clearer communication skills.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps are used when people want to make concrete life changes like addressing process addictions or rebuilding trust after infidelity. He works with clients who are facing grief, anger, self-esteem struggles, bipolar mood concerns, or life transitions. First responder issues and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder appear among his focus areas.
Jeffrey aims to be respectful and direct, tailoring conversation and goals to each person he meets. Jeffrey practices in Tennessee and conducts sessions in English. He encourages people to take the first step toward change and offers practical guidance to help them move forward.
Online approaches that fit your goals
Jeffrey uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, a practical method that often helps with anxiety and depression. He also uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening, building trust, and shaping goals together so conversations feel respectful and relevant. Mindfulness therapy is added when it helps people learn simple awareness and breathing skills to reduce stress and stay grounded.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Jeffrey treats the choice of methods as a collaboration and adjusts techniques to match a person's needs, goals, and preferences. He talks with clients about what is working, what to try next, and how to measure small steps forward.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more adaptable to daily life. Video lets people work face to face when that is helpful, phone can be lighter on bandwidth, and messaging or chat can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep appointments, try new skills between meetings, and maintain continuity when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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