About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Lavallee is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Utah who helps people facing relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, mood concerns like depression and bipolar, anxiety, and stress.
Background and approach
He also supports those dealing with addictions, grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and identity concerns within the LGBT community. He has 34 years of experience in clinical work and life coaching.
Jeff uses a direct but warm style in sessions. He speaks plainly and aims to make conversations straightforward.
People can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental tone and practical steps to try between meetings. His work draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior.
He integrates cognitive behavioral methods to spot unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Emotionally-focused ideas help when work centers on repairing connections and expressing needs.
Jeff believes each plan should fit the person. He adapts conversations and tools to a person’s history and current goals rather than using a one-size-fits-all script.
Sessions may include coaching-style guidance when the focus is on life changes or practical next steps. People come to him for both short-term problem solving and longer-term work on patterns that repeat.
He describes therapy as a collaborative effort where the client’s goals set the direction and pace.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotions and behavior; it helps people who struggle with trust, closeness, or repeated relationship patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflict more effectively.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try different methods to see what fits. That decision is collaborative and can change as needs or circumstances change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and to match how someone prefers to communicate. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, brief live chat or text-based check-ins can be useful for short follow-ups or skill coaching between longer meetings. These options aim to make attending sessions more flexible and to fit therapy into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English