About Christopher
Christopher Gerou is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and big life changes. He has three decades of experience supporting people through work and identity concerns, parenting strain, career transitions, and questions of meaning. His style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping someone feel steadier and more capable day to day.
Christopher draws on client-centered and solution-focused methods to keep sessions focused on what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
He also uses trauma-focused work when past events keep showing up in current life. Conversations are clear and respectful, with attention to trust and nondiscrimination. He holds a Master of Counseling from Concordia University Wisconsin and a Master of Thanatology, the study of death and loss, from Hood College.
His background includes work with the State of Wisconsin Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and roles in education settings. These experiences shape his practical approach to problems like grief, caregiver stress, and career disruption. Sessions blend listening with concrete next steps.
Christopher aims to help people notice small changes that lead to better coping and more intentional choices. He also focuses on issues such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, autism spectrum considerations, first responder stress, and end-of-life counseling. People who reach out can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through hard topics and plan manageable steps forward.
Christopher practices in Wisconsin and emphasizes straightforward, solution-oriented work.
Approach-focused online care that fits your life
Christopher uses client-centered therapy to follow each person's priorities, offering a listening style that helps people feel heard and decide what matters most. This approach is useful for stress, self-esteem, and life decisions.He also uses solution-focused therapy to set clear, achievable goals and identify small steps toward them. That method works well for practical problems like career transitions, parenting challenges, or coping with day-to-day anxiety.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped before, and then propose a plan to try. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked and needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options provide flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or mobility limits, and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English