About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Scarbrough is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and addictive behaviors. He draws on 17 years of experience to offer straightforward guidance and steady support.
Background and approach
His approach is respectful and practical, aimed at helping people take small steps toward change. He adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs instead of using one-size-fits-all solutions.
Sessions focus on clear goals like improving communication, managing mood swings, or reducing compulsive behaviors. He also works on parenting concerns and issues that come up in blended families.
Much of his background includes working with adolescents in intensive group settings for the past decade, which shaped his skill in helping young people navigate big emotions and relationships. He also brings that experience to sessions with adults and couples dealing with family conflict and intimacy-related problems.
Jeffrey uses approaches that help people notice patterns, build skills, and find practical ways forward. He aims to create a calm space where people can talk through painful experiences like grief, infidelity, or life transitions and leave with actionable steps.
He helps clients address both immediate crises and longer-term goals such as life purpose and self-esteem. Based in Tennessee, he works with individuals on issues including bipolar disorder, anger, communication problems, and first responder stress.
His style is collaborative and goal-oriented, and he encourages people to take the first step toward change when they are ready.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, listening approach where the therapist mirrors and clarifies what matters to the client; it helps people feel heard and decide what changes they want to try. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and addictive urges.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jeffrey collaborates with each person to pick methods that match goals, comfort level, and life demands. He adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most, so the plan evolves with the client's progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper interaction. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or hands-free conversation is easier. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, homework support, or people who prefer typing to talking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep regular momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English