Geraldine Leary

Geraldine Leary offers steady, experienced support when life’s demands begin to feel overwhelming and leave a person stuck. She recognizes that asking for help can be difficult, and she meets people where they are, providing a calm, nonjudgmental space to explore strengths, quiet the mind, and identify practical steps toward desired goals.

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Arizona with 30 years of clinical experience working with depression, anxiety, substance use and co-occurring disorders, self-esteem issues, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting and caregiving challenges, anger management, bipolar disorder, stress, compassion fatigue, and other life transitions. Her work has spanned individual, group, family, and couples counseling across outpatient, residential, in-home, inpatient, community-based, and hospital settings, with clients ranging in age from 12 to 95.

Geraldine draws from a range of evidence-informed methods - cognitive behavioral treatment, dialectical behavioral treatment, mindfulness practices, solution-focused techniques, and principles for dealing with life on life’s terms - shaping an eclectic approach that matches each person’s needs. She listens for strengths, recurring patterns, and the internal dialogue that guides a person’s story, then helps translate insight into concrete goals and achievable steps.

Her therapeutic stance is present and respectful, and she works collaboratively to address barriers that interfere with being one’s best self. She has been told she can be challenging in a “carefrontational” way that still feels safe, engaging clients in a joint effort to create a new chapter in their lives. Now that someone has taken the step to seek support, Geraldine looks forward to working with them toward the outcomes they want to achieve.