About Gary
Gary Nelson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 17 years in practice. He works in Indiana and brings steady, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and other life changes. He has many years of experience working with people who identify as LGBT.
Gary aims to help clients find and use their own strengths. He keeps a personable, laid-back manner and focuses on clear, direct conversation rather than empty reassurance.
Background and approach
Gary often helps people address worry, trouble sleeping, low self-esteem, anger, and grief. He also works with addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, career questions, and issues around intimacy. His broader interests include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family stress, body image, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and codependency.
In sessions he draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. That means he listens closely, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and collaborates on small, practical changes that fit daily life. People who prefer straightforward talk and practical steps are likely to find his style helpful.
He aims to help people build a clearer sense of direction and to cope better with the demands of work, relationships, and health challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Gary blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to make therapy practical and person-focused. Client-centered therapy means the therapist listens closely, follows the person's lead, and helps the person build on their own strengths and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits, and replaces them with concrete experiments and new ways of coping.He may also use mindfulness strategies to help reduce reactivity and increase moment-to-moment awareness. Mindfulness exercises are short and can be practiced between sessions to help with anxiety, sleep trouble, and stress. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit best and to adjust the plan over time in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or messaging supports quick check-ins, shorter reflections, or more flexible scheduling. These options help people fit therapy into work days, family life, and busy routines while focusing on practical strategies for coping and change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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