Jeffrey Riskin
Calm practical help for family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LISW
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Riskin is a licensed independent social worker with 39 years of experience. He focuses on practical help for common problems like stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, parenting concerns, and relationship strain. He speaks plain language and aims to make therapy feel manageable for busy people.
He works from Ohio and offers sessions in English, including international clients. In sessions he listens first to find what is working and what gets in the way.
Background and approach
He uses clear, structured methods to address coping skills, mood problems, and trauma-related symptoms. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy are among his commonly used tools. He also brings trauma-focused methods when past events keep causing distress.
Jeffrey explains ideas simply and helps people try techniques between sessions. That can include practicing new thinking habits, emotion regulation skills, or small behavior changes. He checks progress and adjusts the plan as needed so goals stay realistic and relevant.
He holds the LISW credential, which is Licensed Independent Social Worker. Over nearly four decades he has worked with many kinds of mood and stress-related issues, as well as family and parenting concerns. His focus is on helping people find clearer paths through hard times.
The tone in his practice is straightforward and practical. He aims to reduce overwhelm with step-by-step strategies and ongoing support. Parents and others who need a steady, experienced clinician often appreciate this direct approach.
Evidence-based approaches for online family and life challenges
Jeffrey commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood problems. DBT emphasizes skills for managing intense emotion, improving relationships, and handling distress without making problems worse.He also applies trauma-focused techniques when past events keep affecting daily life. Those methods help people process painful memories and reduce the ways trauma continues to cause fear, avoidance, or mood disruption. Choosing the right approach is a shared process. He will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels workable, then try methods together and adjust based on progress and comfort.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. These options make it easier to keep consistent sessions, practice skills between meetings, and get support from wherever you are. The mix of structured therapeutic tools and flexible session formats helps people move forward while balancing family and daily responsibilities.
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.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Work that takes difficult past experience into account and moves at a pace you set, with attention to feeling steady before anything else. Being in your own space can make that easier for some people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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