About Jeff
Jeff Compton, NCPS, helps people who are struggling with relationships, family friction, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. He also supports those dealing with depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem issues and coping with life changes. He works with people across LGBT concerns and mood conditions such as bipolar.
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted. Jeff brings 46 years of professional experience to his practice.
Background and approach
He aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity and compassion. He listens carefully and adjusts conversation and planning to suit each person’s situation. He acknowledges how hard it can feel to take the first step towards change.
In sessions he helps people unpick persistent patterns that keep causing pain. He works with both those who have been harmed and people who have caused harm, using plain language and steady pacing. The goal is to find new, more positive ways forward that fit real life.
Jeff draws on a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He also uses attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused work when relevant. He chooses methods to match the problem and the person rather than using a single fixed model.
Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Fees vary with location and subscription terms apply, which can be cancelled at any time. To begin, users choose Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule according to availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes by clarifying what matters and building small steps towards it.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on patterns of thought and behaviour that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises and experiments that people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage mood and change unhelpful habits.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationship experiences shape current ways of relating. This can help with intimacy issues, relationship conflict and patterns like avoidance or fear of abandonment.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals, try different methods when needed, and agree on what feels most helpful. This collaborative process aims to match technique to the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit around work and family life. Video calls let you use visual cues for deeper conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text-based messaging helps maintain contact between appointments. These options make it easier to sustain therapy over time and to try practical exercises in day-to-day settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 46 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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