About Geraldine
Geraldine Leary welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, parenting strain, addiction, or trauma. She names common challenges plainly and helps people find steady, practical steps forward. Geraldine is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with three decades of practice in Arizona.
She believes most people already have strengths to draw on. Her sessions focus on finding those strengths and building clear actions to reach goals.
Background and approach
Geraldine creates a calm, nonjudgmental space and listens for patterns and the internal dialogue that shape daily life. Her style mixes several methods to match each person’s needs. She uses client-centered ways to follow what matters most to the person.
Cognitive behavioral ideas help identify unhelpful thoughts and change routines that keep problems going. She also uses dialectical behavior ideas and mindfulness to teach moment-to-moment skills for coping and emotion regulation. Motivational interviewing helps when people are unsure about change or feel stuck.
Geraldine has worked across settings including outpatient, residential, in-home, and hospital care. Her experience spans ages from early teens into late adulthood and includes individual, group, and some family and couples work. She aims to collaborate with each person on a realistic plan and clear goals.
When someone is ready to take the next step she listens, offers respectful challenge when helpful, and partners on concrete steps toward a new chapter.
Approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Geraldine often draws on client-centered work which means she follows what matters most to the person in the room and builds sessions around their priorities. This approach helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to shape goals at their own pace.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a hands-on method for spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing everyday habits that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it focuses on practical steps and small experiments you can try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Geraldine will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. She works collaboratively so the approach changes when it isn’t helping or when priorities shift.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through exercises in real time. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and flexible ways to keep progress between full sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English