Geri Burgess

Geri Burgess is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and relationship concerns. Geri creates an open space where clients can speak without feeling judged and can begin steps toward change.

She focuses on practical, everyday strategies that make life feel more manageable. Sessions center on listening first, then working together to name what’s most pressing. Geri uses straightforward tools to address sleeping troubles, low self-esteem, grief, and challenges tied to identity and LGBT concerns.

Her work draws on several well-known approaches, including client-centered methods that prioritize each person’s goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thought patterns and mindfulness techniques to build steady habits that reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing helps when someone needs support finding the drive to change.

Geri frames therapy as a partnership. She helps people set clear, realistic goals and checks progress along the way. Many clients find this combination useful for coping with life changes, career stress, or complicated family-of-origin issues.

Geri is based in Alabama and offers services in English. International clients are accepted. To start, people answer a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Geri uses client-centered work that focuses on what matters most to the person. This approach means sessions start with careful listening and build goals based on the client’s priorities. It helps with relationship concerns, identity questions, and feeling stuck.

She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. That method offers concrete exercises to break unhelpful patterns and is often useful for anxiety, anger, and sleep problems. Mindfulness techniques are used to develop simple habits for managing reactivity and stress in daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Geri will work together with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals and preferences. Clients and therapist check in regularly to see what is working and adjust plans when needed.

Confirm the session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific options. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when a full session is not needed. Talk with the therapist about what will best fit your schedule and needs.