About Gerald
Gerald Baird is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, and holds the LCPC credential. He brings five years of clinical experience and a calm, direct style to sessions. He aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, eating concerns, depression, and compassion fatigue.
Gerald speaks English and offers therapy to people in Utah. Gerald blends practical skills with time to listen. He uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behavior patterns.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take small steps toward them. Internal Family Systems work can help people understand different parts of themselves and how those parts interact. He has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings, and he completed a master's degree in professional counseling from Grand Canyon University.
That background informs how he structures sessions and how he supports people facing loss, workplace stress, and relationship challenges. He also addresses issues such as attachment and abandonment wounds, body image, money stress, and men’s midlife concerns. Sessions focus on clear, achievable goals.
Gerald offers a mix of skills training, reflective conversation, and practical homework to try between sessions. He recognizes it can feel risky to start therapy and aims to build trust through steady, respectful work. People who reach out typically want tools they can use right away and someone who listens without judgment.
Gerald works with each person to choose approaches that fit their life and their goals.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Gerald often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts without getting stuck and to take small steps toward what matters. ACT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and when someone wants clearer priorities.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot thinking patterns that keep problems going and to practice different behaviors that produce better results. CBT is practical for stress, eating concerns, and situations where changing routines helps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gerald will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then tailor techniques to fit their situation. That collaborative planning means methods can shift as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Idaho
- Languages
- English