About Geoffrey
Geoffrey Stratton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of practice based in Texas. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and self-esteem struggles. Geoffrey emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassionate care in sessions.
He often works with people facing grief, parenting challenges, addictions, or life changes. He also helps with issues like ADHD, intimacy concerns, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are shaped to address what a person needs most in their day-to-day life.
Background and approach
In the room he keeps conversations direct and practical. Geoffrey listens carefully, helps clarify goals, and offers concrete steps clients can try between sessions. He uses a mix of approaches to match the person and the problem rather than a single fixed method.
People looking for help with phobias, trauma-related worries, or patterns rooted in attachment often find his approach useful. He draws on methods that focus on thoughts, emotions, and relationships to reduce distress and increase coping skills. Progress is tracked through small, achievable changes.
Geoffrey aims to make starting therapy straightforward. He tailors each plan to the client’s pace and priorities. The work is collaborative - clients set goals and he helps map realistic steps toward them.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and persistent avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and replacing them with more helpful alternatives. CBT is often used for phobias, depression, and sleep or eating difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Geoffrey will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. He adapts techniques from ACT and CBT to suit what a client needs most rather than sticking to one method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping focus on progress and practical steps.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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