Jeffrey Lavallee
Compassionate, experienced therapist for parents and relationships
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Lavallee is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Utah. He brings 34 years of clinical experience to help people facing relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, trauma, and stress. He offers straightforward, respectful care delivered with warmth and practical guidance.
Jeff focuses on clear conversation and useful skills rather than labels. Sessions tend to be interactive and direct. He listens first, then helps clients set simple goals and steps to move forward.
Background and approach
His training includes approaches that look at how people connect with others and how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. Jeffrey draws from Attachment-Based Therapy to examine relationship patterns. He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Over three decades he has supported people with many concerns, including grief, addictions, LGBT matters, bipolar mood issues, eating and sleep problems, and challenges tied to adoption or caregiving. He also works with those facing chronic illness, attention differences, and communication or control difficulties. Jeffrey describes his style as warm, direct, and compassionate.
He adapts his work to the person in the room, tailoring conversation and exercises to fit each situation. The result is practical help aimed at clearer communication, better coping, and small, steady changes.
Therapy approaches and online options that fit family life
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. It helps people understand how they relate to partners or close others and can guide changes in communication and trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and coping skills for strong emotions and stressful situations.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jeffrey will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods together in a collaborative way. Clients and therapist decide which tools to try and how to measure progress over time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats allow sessions around busy schedules, help parents join from home, and make it easier to continue work between appointments. The mix of real-time conversations and brief messaging can support skill practice and steady follow-through.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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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
Next step
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