About Gerald
Gerald Syrkett is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, and parenting challenges. He speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can take. His approach centers on listening and building on a person’s strengths.
If you decided to look for help, he acknowledges that first step and meets you where you are. Gerald uses a mix of Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in sessions.
Background and approach
He helps clients name patterns that cause pain and then tries out different ways of responding. Sessions emphasize clear goals, small experiments, and straightforward skills you can use between meetings. Over 13 years in practice, Gerald has worked with people facing guilt and shame, issues related to military service, and experiences of prejudice and discrimination.
That background informs how he notices stress reactions and supports steady progress. He favors a collaborative style where the person’s experience guides the pace. In sessions he focuses on simple tools for day-to-day life.
This may include noticing unhelpful thoughts, practicing new ways of asking for needs, or changing routines that feed anxiety or addictive habits. He explains ideas in plain language and checks in about what feels useful. Gerald is licensed in Florida as an LMHC and offers services in English.
He accepts clients in Florida and works with international clients when arrangements allow. If you want a practical, down-to-earth counselor, he aims to make therapy understandable and usable.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feeling and behavior. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in how they connect with others and practice new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and shame. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and highlights listening, respect, and collaboration; in remote sessions this means the therapist follows the client’s lead and supports their choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and then tests small changes; it lends itself well to short exercises and homework that can be reviewed over video or messaging.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gerald will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That decision is made together and can shift over time as different tools are tested and adapted.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try skills in real situations while keeping momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Depression
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- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English