About Gary
Gary Grant is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Washington. He brings five decades of experience in education, probation work, and clinical therapy to his work with individuals. He often uses client-centered ideas and practical tools to help people manage worry, stress, and painful life events.
He connects a client-centered outlook with cognitive-behavioral techniques to address anxiety, depression, phobias, and addiction concerns. He also draws on attachment-based ideas to help with intimacy and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at building resilience and using individual strengths to move forward. Gary has worked across many communities over his career, including lengthy periods living and working with Native American and Alaskan Native populations. That background informs a multicultural perspective when discussing identity, grief, or trauma.
He has also supported people facing gender identity and LGBT concerns. Training and earlier roles include classroom teaching, probation officer duties, and group therapy work. He has a Master of Arts in Education, Psychology, Guidance and Counseling and additional graduate coursework in clinical psychology.
He also completed training in clinical hypnotherapy and group psychotherapy. In sessions he uses straightforward, calm conversation and practical exercises such as mindfulness and cognitive techniques. He works with topics like sleep problems, eating issues, parenting stress, chronic pain and life transitions.
People meet him for help with coping skills and steadying day-to-day routines.
How core approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work focuses on the patterns people form in close relationships and helps them recognize and change interaction habits that cause pain. It can be useful for intimacy concerns, trust issues, and improving how people connect with others.Client-centered therapy centers the person in the room and uses empathic listening and collaboration. It helps people who need a steady, accepting space to talk through stress, identity questions, or life changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and phobias. It uses practical exercises and homework to build new habits and reduce distress between sessions.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try techniques together and adjust as needed. This makes it easier to find a way of working that fits the person’s life and needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works well for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing notes or quick questions. These options offer flexibility for fitting therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 50 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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