About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Steer is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He also supports people dealing with parenting strain, self-esteem challenges, anger, trauma and abuse, and LGBT-related issues.
Background and approach
He has practiced as a Marriage and Family Therapist for 18 years and has worked in community resource centers and residential treatment settings. Jeffrey completed a Master of Arts degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy at Chapman University.
He has been licensed in California since 2007 as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). Jeffrey tends to use strength-based and cognitive-behavioral approaches.
He focuses on practical steps and skills people can use between sessions to manage mood, reduce anxiety, and handle stress. He adjusts methods to fit each person's situation rather than relying on one fixed method.
At the start of work he takes time to learn what the person wants from therapy. He aims to meet clients where they are, identify existing strengths, and build a shared plan to move forward.
Sessions emphasize clear goals and collaborative problem solving. Across his years in practice he has supported people with a range of adjustment problems and emotional concerns.
He values the relationship with the person in front of him as the central part of making progress in therapy.
Therapeutic techniques and online access
Jeffrey commonly uses cognitive-behavioral techniques that focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. This approach teaches practical skills people can use day to day to manage mood and stress.He also uses a strengths-based style that highlights a person’s existing abilities and resources. This helps build confidence, set achievable goals, and guide step-by-step progress for issues like parenting strain, recovery from addiction, or relationship concerns.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist and client work together to identify goals, try methods that fit the client’s needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That joint decision making helps shape the focus of sessions and the skills emphasized.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides short real-time check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, childcare, or other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English