About Geoffrey
Geoffrey Stratton is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience in Texas. He offers steady, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem struggles. He meets clients where they are and focuses on clear, doable steps forward.
He uses a mix of approaches that include somatic work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered methods, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Sessions are adapted to each person’s needs and preferences rather than following one fixed method.
Background and approach
Geoffrey aims to make therapy feel understandable and useful from the first visit. People often connect with him when they need help managing relationships, anger, addictions, or life changes. He also supports those dealing with parenting strain, career stress, chronic health challenges, and identity questions related to LGBT issues.
He listens for the problems beneath the surface and helps clients find practical ways to cope. Geoffrey emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions. He helps people build skills, try new habits, and notice how thoughts and the body affect feelings.
The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. Work can include talking, tracking patterns, and learning small body-based exercises to calm the nervous system. Each plan is tailored - goals, pace, and techniques are chosen together so the client feels involved and understood.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic work pays attention to the body and how physical sensations connect to emotions. Online sessions can include simple body-awareness exercises, breathing and grounding practices that you can do at home to ease tension and improve regulation.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, committed steps toward them. It uses exercises to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions during remote sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how past relationships shape current patterns. In online meetings the therapist and client talk through relationship habits and try new interaction strategies to build more stable connections in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Geoffrey will collaborate with each client to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That choice can shift over time as progress is made and priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. This flexibility helps people fit sessions around work, caregiving, or health limits, and lets homework and body-based practices be done in the client’s own environment. Licensed professionals can guide and adapt techniques so remote care feels practical and usable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English