About Jeff
Jeff Fry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience. He uses straightforward, practical methods to help people feel more capable and hopeful. He aims to help people notice the simple changes that make life work better.
Jeff explains his thinking plainly and invites questions and challenges to his ideas. Jeff believes many problems come from a mismatch between a person and their environment. He also pays attention to a person’s history because it shapes current choices.
Background and approach
In sessions he helps people name strengths and see when those strengths become problems in different settings. He focuses on clear, goal-oriented steps so people feel progress. His main approach is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and he borrows tools from other methods when useful.
He encourages active collaboration and will explain his rationale in as much detail as someone wants. Jeff has worked in many settings across his career. He has experience with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, ADHD, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem concerns.
He also supports people facing relationship strains, parenting challenges, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and coping with traumatic events. He is experienced with LGBTQ concerns, gender dysphoria, veteran and armed forces issues, OCD and panic disorder, and phobias. Jeff works with people to identify practical steps they can take right away.
His style is direct but respectful, focused on helping people move forward.
Online approaches and practical therapy
Jeff uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, obsessive thoughts, and many everyday worries because it focuses on practical steps and skill building.He also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to zero in on small changes that lead to quick progress. This method asks what is already working and builds on that, which can help with relationships, parenting challenges, and moving through transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. From there he and the client choose which methods to try and adjust them as needed in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different rhythms of life. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when lower bandwidth or no camera is needed. Live chat and messaging can be used for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a short, focused exchange works better. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, or travel schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English