About Geri
Geri Cassady is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people work through stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and addiction. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Geri writes plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Geri draws on nearly a decade of clinical experience in mental health. She uses a Cognitive Behavioral approach as a primary tool, and combines it with client-centered listening and solution-focused strategies when helpful.
Background and approach
She also uses narrative and trauma-focused work for people processing difficult stories or painful memories. In a session she aims to listen first, clarify goals, and suggest doable tools to try between meetings. She emphasizes clear communication, problem-solving, and skills that help reduce overwhelming feelings.
Conversations are grounded and direct while remaining compassionate and respectful. Geri has practiced in Georgia in community agencies and personal settings, which shaped her ability to adapt treatment to everyday life. She works at a steady pace and helps people build routines and habits that support emotional stability.
The focus is on what moves the person toward better functioning and greater satisfaction. People who choose Geri can expect a collaborative working style. She helps clients name priorities, choose techniques to test, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Her aim is to help people feel more capable of handling life’s ups and downs.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding where the person is coming from. It helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around their goals and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and provides clear tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right method is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try approaches, and adjust based on how well techniques fit the client's needs and preferences. This collaborative process helps identify which tools and styles feel most useful over time.
Online therapy can make regular care easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing body language matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter, brief check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates or use short check-ins between sessions. These options increase flexibility for scheduling and for staying consistent with therapeutic work.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English