About Gary
Gary Grant is a licensed mental health counselor with five decades of experience. He offers straightforward psychotherapy focused on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and related concerns. Gary speaks plainly and helps clients find practical ways to feel steadier in day-to-day life.
He blends client-centered principles with attachment-focused ideas to build trust and understanding in sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and to practice small behavior changes that reduce distress.
Background and approach
He also draws on existential themes to help people find meaning during major life changes. Gary's background includes long work in education, probation, and community mental health across several states. That experience shaped his cross-cultural perspective and his sensitivity to diverse identities and life stories.
He has experience working with LGBT concerns and with people from Native and African heritage communities. In practice he helps people with depression, addictions, grief, sleep problems, anger, and relationship difficulties. He also supports those coping with chronic illness, dissociation, eating concerns, and career questions.
His approach emphasizes strengths, resilience, and practical steps toward coping. Gary holds a Master of Arts in Education, Psychology, Guidance and Counseling and a Master of Fine Arts, and he is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington state. He has also worked with mindfulness-based emotional regulation and hypnotherapy techniques as part of his clinical work.
How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions
Gary combines client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral tools to shape online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a collaborative relationship so clients feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve sleep.He also uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how past relationships affect current reactions. That perspective helps with intimacy-related issues, grief, and coping after trauma by clarifying relational patterns and teaching new ways to connect. Gary will discuss which approaches match a person's goals and tailor the plan together in the first few sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy more flexible. Video lets therapists and clients read facial expressions and do longer sessions. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on consistent, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- 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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