About Jerry
Jerry Utt is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, mood disorders, and addiction. He practices with a focus on practical skills, steady support, and clear steps you can use between sessions. He works from North Carolina and offers sessions in English.
He draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and attachment-based work to help people handle upsetting memories, overwhelming feelings, and habits that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning new coping skills, practicing different ways of thinking, and building routines that reduce distress. His background includes both inpatient and outpatient settings, and many years providing crisis intervention to people facing severe life disruption. That experience guides how he responds when problems feel urgent or when past treatments have not helped enough.
He is familiar with substance use issues alongside behavioral health needs and understands how both can interact. In sessions he uses motivational techniques to help people identify what matters to them and to support lasting change. He also incorporates CBT strategies for anger, self-harm risk, and mood concerns.
The work is collaborative and goal-focused, with practical steps each week. Jerry earned his Master of Social Work and maintains his LCSW license in North Carolina. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their life.
How Jerry’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful action despite difficult thoughts or feelings. Online ACT work often involves exercises to notice thoughts, set goals, and practice small steps between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to change them; that can include homework, thought records, and skill practice during video or chat sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current reactions, helping clients try new ways of connecting and responding in relationships.Choosing the best approach is part of the process. Jerry will talk with each person about their goals and symptoms and recommend which tools to try first. The plan can change over time based on what helps most, and decisions are made together so the work fits the client’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill demonstrations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can work for brief check-ins or when someone needs a shorter touchpoint during a busy day. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still using evidence-based approaches and weekly practice.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English