About Aurilia
Aurilia Gray-Grimes is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with seven years of clinical experience. She combines years of community service with clinical practice to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and low self-esteem. Her tone is warm and straightforward.
She focuses on practical support people can use between sessions. She creates a calm space where clients can speak without judgment. Sessions move at a pace the client chooses, with the therapist acting as a guide and partner in the work.
Background and approach
Aurilia offers concrete tools for managing anger, easing anxiety, and improving self-worth. Her background includes long-term service in faith-based settings supporting single mothers, young adults, and people coping with relationship changes. That experience informs a compassionate approach to loss and to the emotional impact of not having a partner.
She uses this perspective to help people name feelings and build new routines. Aurilia blends conversation with structured techniques. She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods and EMDR to address upsetting memories and unhelpful thinking.
Motivational interviewing and client-centered work help clarify goals and strengthen self-direction. People who prefer a steady, practical, and empathetic guide may find her style helpful. She emphasizes skill-building, clearer communication, and gradual changes that fit daily life.
The focus is on small, manageable steps toward feeling more capable and connected.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Aurilia often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and partnership so clients set the pace and priorities. Cognitive behavioral work involves practical exercises and small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses emotionally-focused strategies to address relationship-related feelings and EMDR to help process distressing memories. Emotionally-focused methods help people name and shift patterns that happen in close relationships. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing offers a structured way to reduce the intensity of upsetting memories when that is part of the work.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Aurilia will discuss options and tailor methods to each person's goals, comfort, and needs. Together the therapist and client decide which tools to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from anywhere in Florida, phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or when speaking feels easier, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats help fit therapy into busy schedules and make consistent progress more reachable.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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