About Jerome
Dr. Jerome Anderson is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of practice. He holds the LCSW and LICSW credentials and works from Maryland.
He offers straightforward, practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and career challenges. He focuses on both short-term goals and longer-lasting changes. In sessions he helps people sort priorities, build coping skills, and make concrete plans for life changes.
He also addresses trauma, intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, sleep problems, and attention-related struggles.
Background and approach
Before moving into community practice in Maryland, he worked in clinical roles across criminal justice and military health settings. That background shaped his ability to work with people under high stress and in complicated circumstances. He brings 24 years of clinical experience to each conversation.
His approach draws on person-focused methods, cognitive-behavioral ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. He aims to match techniques to the problem at hand, so sessions can feel practical and relevant. Sessions use clear goals and regular check-ins to track progress.
People who prefer direct guidance, skill-building, and a collaborative plan often find this style helpful. He also offers multiple online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding what matters most to the person sitting in front of him. This approach helps people feel heard and clarifies goals for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with practical strategies to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and the problems to address. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion when bandwidth and time permit. Phone sessions are useful for a focused conversation or when video is not convenient. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or flexible exchanges that fit a busy day. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping therapy consistent and goal-oriented.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri, District of Columbia, Maryland
- Languages
- English