Jeffrey (Jeff) Cohen, LPC

Jeffrey (Jeff) Cohen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 20 years of clinical experience. He works with adults on concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties, parenting strain, grief, addictions, career questions, and anger. Jeff also lists focus areas including body image, communication problems, fatherhood issues, and isolation or loneliness.

Jeff draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a main approach. He also uses Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy to help people set and reach practical goals. In sessions he listens closely and asks concrete questions to identify patterns that are getting in the way of how someone wants to live.

Sessions tend to focus on small, doable steps. For example, people might work on changing unhelpful thoughts, practicing different communication moves, or defining short-term goals to test what helps. He describes his manner as relaxed and light, aiming to make conversations straightforward and clear rather than technical.

Jeff's background includes work in residential treatment settings with troubled youth and families, and experience with military personnel and veterans. That history informs how he thinks about resilience and responses to big life changes. He views problems as opportunities for growth, while acknowledging that change can be uncomfortable.

People considering therapy with Jeff begin by identifying goals they want to reach. He frames his role as offering guidance, listening, and practical strategies to move toward those goals. If you need help sorting parenting pressures, relationship strain, or managing anxiety, he focuses on steps that can be practiced between sessions.

Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions