About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Lavallee is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Utah who helps people facing anxiety, depression, relationship stress, phobias, grief, and life transitions. He also works with concerns such as ADHD, addictions, self-esteem, parenting strain, and trauma. His tone is warm and direct while keeping sessions practical and goal-focused.
He brings 34 years of experience to brief and longer-term work. Sessions are conversational and collaborative. He listens closely, asks clear questions, and offers simple strategies people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Jeffrey blends approaches to match each person's needs. He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. He uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas to strengthen connection and repair relationship patterns.
Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space. He aims to remove stigma and focuses on actionable steps that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. He can coach people through career shifts, parenting challenges, and major life changes.
His practice addresses a wide range of additional issues including abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication problems. The work is practical, plainspoken, and tailored to what the client wants to achieve.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how people form bonds and feel safe with others. Online sessions can use this approach to help clients notice patterns in relationships and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets thoughts and actions that keep problems going. In remote sessions clients learn specific exercises and homework to change unhelpful thinking and routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for regulating emotion, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be taught and practiced in video or messaging formats.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That shared decision-making helps shape a plan that fits personal needs and preferences.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth work and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging make short check-ins, skill practice, and homework support more accessible throughout the week. These formats offer flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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