About Geraldine
Geraldine (Geri) Godbolt is a licensed professional counselor who draws on eight years of clinical work to guide people through hard moments. She focuses on one concern at a time while recognizing when multiple issues must be addressed together. Geri aims to help clients build new ways of living that make use of their existing strengths.
She describes counseling as a team process that moves forward with commitment and patience.
Background and approach
Geri uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person’s situation. Sessions often include talking, skill practice, and short assignments to try between meetings. She checks progress regularly and adjusts the plan when needed.
This hands-on style helps people stay involved in their own recovery. Her background includes a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Regent University. She also holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential in Georgia.
Geri has additional coursework in trauma and has worked with clients facing complex, overlapping needs. Past roles include serving as lead clinician at a residential program where she worked with people experiencing homelessness and those in transitional housing. That setting reinforced a flexible approach - one method does not fit everyone.
She uses evidence-based practices alongside person-focused techniques. In sessions she may include exercises from acceptance-based and cognitive approaches, and she often blends elements from several methods to match each person’s needs. Geri encourages active participation, including journaling or worksheets when helpful, and she frames therapy as gradual work toward clearer goals.
Approach-Focused Online Therapy That Fits Your Life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then move toward actions that align with their values; it can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more workable thoughts and behaviors, which often helps with depression, anxiety, and addiction issues. Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s experience at the center of the work, offering empathic listening and support to help someone find their own solutions.Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what methods fit best based on goals, preferences, and how problems show up day to day. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, journaling prompts, and quick skill reminders between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and reach licensed professionals from different locations.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English