About James
Dr. James Geidner helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, addiction-related issues, and challenges like ADHD and bipolar mood swings. He also supports those dealing with trauma, attachment wounds, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, career shifts, and the fallout of divorce or separation.
Dr. Geidner holds LCPC and LPC credentials and brings two decades of clinical practice to his work. He aims for clear, practical conversations.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now and what steps feel doable. He listens for personal patterns and helps people notice how past experiences shape their reactions. The tone is straightforward and collaborative.
Dr. Geidner blends several approaches to match each person's needs. He uses cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors.
Attachment-based ideas help when early relationships continue to affect trust and closeness. He also draws on client-centered and narrative elements to center each person's story. Before recommending a path, he works with people to identify goals and preferences.
That may include skills practice, thinking exercises, or talking through formative experiences. He has worked in psychiatric rehabilitation, child treatment centers, universities, and as a clinical supervisor at multiple institutions. Based in Michigan, he combines academic work with independent practice experience.
People who want a pragmatic, flexible approach that respects their history often look to him for steady guidance and clear next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Geidner commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas in his online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and test unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills for anxiety, depression, or sleep problems. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape trust and closeness and can be useful for intimacy issues, abandonment worries, and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That might mean trying skills practice first, then moving to deeper narrative or attachment work as needed; decisions are revisited together as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and practice conversations, phone calls can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to attend regular sessions and keep progress moving while balancing daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English