About Jeffrey
Jeffrey "Jeff" Widenhofer is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado who helps people facing stress and anxiety. He meets clients where they are and focuses on day-to-day problems that make life harder. Jeff keeps language simple and practical so worried parents can read and understand quickly.
Jeff believes each person knows their story best and brings strengths to the work. He aims to support and empower people as they try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and build on what already goes well in a person’s life. In session Jeff uses a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and attachment-informed ideas. He uses these methods to help people manage strong emotions, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and improve close relationships.
He also draws on client-centered and dialectical methods to keep conversations grounded and respectful. Jeff has three years of professional experience working with concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, anger, and career stress. He also addresses issues like isolation, communication problems, and the impact of major life transitions.
That range helps him tailor work to what a person needs right now. Sessions are available in English and are offered through video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Jeff works with people in Colorado and aims to make therapy usable for busy schedules and real-life demands.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then taking steps that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and making difficult changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. This approach is useful for managing worry, low mood, and unhelpful habits. Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes patterns in close relationships and how early connection affects current trust and intimacy; it can help people improve communication and feel less isolated.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying strategies, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than sticking to one fixed method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins during a busy day, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit into family schedules, work breaks, or unpredictable routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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