About Geri
Geri Burgess is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence so people can talk honestly about what is hard for them.
Geri keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. She listens first, then works with each person to find small, manageable changes that feel doable.
Background and approach
She helps people sort through feelings like shame, guilt, loneliness, and anger, and supports those coping with major life shifts such as divorce, caregiver strain, or career stress. Her work draws on several approaches, including client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. That means she pays attention to how thoughts, behaviors, and present-moment awareness affect daily mood and functioning.
She also uses motivational interviewing to help people clarify goals and stay motivated to try new strategies. Geri has supported people dealing with complex concerns such as bipolar disorder, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and issues related to gender identity and sexual orientation. She addresses family-of-origin problems, attachment and abandonment issues, and intimacy-related struggles.
Her background spans community and clinical settings in Alabama and Michigan. Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients. Therapy can be scheduled via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, allowing flexibility for different needs and routines.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Approaches that guide online counseling
Geri brings together client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients address everyday problems. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, acceptance, and helping people find their own solutions, which is useful for concerns like identity, loneliness, and grief. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep trouble.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experience, and what feels most comfortable. Together they choose methods and try them out, adjusting the plan as needed so the work fits the person's life and priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to work on stress, coping skills, and relationship concerns without major schedule changes.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Alabama
- Languages
- English