Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
How Geri works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Michigan, Alabama
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Geri
Geri Burgess is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, grief, and relationship concerns. She creates calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard feelings and start to make changes. Geri emphasizes practical steps and clear goals so clients can see progress between sessions.
Her approach centers on listening first and tailoring work to each person. She uses client-centered methods to follow a person's priorities and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and support better sleep. Geri also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning during life transitions and on motivational interviewing to strengthen motivation for change. Together these tools are used to address issues like career stress, caregiving strain, trauma, ADHD-related challenges, or feelings of emptiness and isolation.
She has worked across community and clinical settings and understands how complex problems can overlap - for example, co-occurring depression and substance or bipolar symptoms. Geri supports people navigating family-of-origin issues, communication breakdowns, abandonment wounds, and intimacy-related struggles. Sessions are offered in English and available to clients in Alabama and internationally.
Geri offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
What Geri works with
Everything Geri lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Geri's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Geri lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Practical Approaches for Online Anger and Stress Work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following a person's priorities. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so clients feel heard, which helps when addressing anger, relationship strain, and low self-esteem.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice patterns of thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It includes small experiments and homework to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and lessen angry reactions.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These practices can be used between sessions to manage stress, improve focus for ADHD symptoms, and support better sleep.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences and will adapt the plan as progress is made.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions use less bandwidth, chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options increase flexibility for scheduling and for how people prefer to connect with a licensed professional.
Questions people ask about Geri
What concerns does Geri address?
Geri supports people with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and career or caregiver strain. She also helps with trauma, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
What is her therapy style like?
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space and focuses on listening before offering tools. Work tends to be practical with clear goals and steps between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
Geri has 20 years of professional experience working in community and clinical settings supporting a wide range of concerns.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and practices from Alabama with licensing noted as AL LPC and MI LPC.
Which languages and international options are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Geri offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different preferences and schedules.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.