Fred Farrar, LPC

Fred Farrar is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, mood struggles, addiction, and trauma. He speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. Fred sees each person as the expert on their life and works to build on their strengths.

Fred uses an approach grounded in cognitive behavioral ideas alongside acceptance and commitment methods and client-centered work. He helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns, try small behavior changes, and clarify what matters most to them. Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are used when people need tools for emotional regulation and crisis coping.

Sessions typically focus on immediate problems and clear goals. Fred helps with worry, panic, low mood, impulse control, and relationship struggles like communication or separation. He also supports people working through guilt, shame, isolation, and financial stress that affect daily life.

Fred brings decades of clinical experience in Georgia and emphasizes collaboration. He will listen, reflect what he hears, and suggest practical strategies to practice between sessions. Progress is tracked in simple, concrete ways so people can see what’s changing.

People who prefer straightforward talk, actionable techniques, and a respectful, nonjudgmental tone may find his style a good fit. He offers sessions in English and uses a mix of short-term problem solving and longer-term skill building.

How therapeutic approaches work online

Fred uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is practical and goal oriented, and it often helps with anxiety, panic, depression, and mood challenges. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy combines mindfulness with values-based action to help people accept difficult feelings while moving toward what matters to them.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Together they decide whether to focus on skill building, thought work, acceptance strategies, or a mix of approaches and then adjust as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit real life. Video sessions let people see each other and work through exercises together. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief skill practice, and when written reflection helps the process. These options make it simpler to attend sessions from different locations and to use the format that best supports the work.