About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Grimes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with 35 years of experience. He helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, anger, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. He speaks English and uses a respectful, compassionate approach when meeting people where they are.
Jeffrey focuses on practical, straightforward conversation. He listens to what matters most, then tailors sessions to each person’s needs. He aims to make sessions useful and relatable so people can try new ways of coping between meetings.
Background and approach
His background includes long experience across a range of concerns from depression and relationship strain to compassion fatigue and ADHD-related challenges. That breadth helps him draw on different tools when a concern overlaps others, such as grief and family stress happening at the same time. Jeffrey works with adults facing life transitions, midlife questions, fatherhood challenges, and multicultural issues.
He also supports people dealing with blended family dynamics, aging and geriatric matters, and recovery after disasters. He frames therapy as a collaborative effort focused on real-life goals. Sessions can include coaching-style work as well as therapy-focused conversations to help people clarify values, improve communication, and reduce overwhelming feelings.
He aims to empower clients so they can take steady steps toward feeling better and handling stress more effectively.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Jeffrey uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on clear, actionable steps. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches practical strategies for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing, grounding, and activity planning. This helps when symptoms interfere with daily routines or sleep.Another frequent focus is grief and loss support, which involves talking through what happened, naming emotions, and finding ways to remember and adapt. That approach aims to reduce isolation and help people re-engage with meaningful activities. He also blends coaching-style conversations to clarify goals and make step-by-step plans for change.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the client to decide what fits best based on current needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process can shift over time as progress is made or new issues come up.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or reflections between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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