About Jeffrey
Dr. Jeffrey Avants is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 14 years of clinical experience. He practices from Indiana and talks plainly about life changes, stress, anxiety, and problems with relationships and addiction.
He views each person as the expert on their own story and looks for strengths to build on. He helps people who are struggling with worry, low self-esteem, motivation, or career stress. He also works with issues around trauma, substance use, intimacy, eating and sleeping, and parenting concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between appointments. Dr. Avants uses a mix of approaches that match the person's needs.
He draws on client-centered methods to make space for each person’s goals and on cognitive behavioral ideas to find patterns of thinking that keep problems going. He also brings narrative and existential perspectives to help people make sense of change and meaning in their lives. People can expect a respectful, down-to-earth tone in sessions.
Conversations are collaborative and goal-focused. The therapist helps clients set small, realistic steps and checks progress over time. Dr.
Avants offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is done after completing a short matching questionnaire.
Practical approaches for online work and anxiety
Dr. Avants uses client-centered methods that prioritize the person's goals and perspective. This approach focuses on listening, understanding what matters to the individual, and shaping sessions around their priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and offers concrete exercises to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Narrative therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and helps reframe those stories to open up new possibilities.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to pick or blend methods that match their needs, values, and goals. The plan can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual connection, phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can work for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone needs flexible timing. These options aim to make consistent care more accessible and easier to maintain.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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