About Gary
Gary Reeves is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 12 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and life transitions. Gary uses a person-centered, collaborative style that aims to meet people where they are and build on their strengths.
He works with individuals and couples facing a wide range of concerns, from grief and addiction to intimacy and parenting strains.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and straightforward. Gary helps people talk through current problems, notice patterns, and try small changes that feel doable. Gary's background includes work in independent practice, community mental health, and residential settings.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from DePaul University, a master’s in Human Resource Management from Loyola University Graduate School of Business, and a master’s in Counseling Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. These experiences inform a flexible, grounded approach to care. In sessions he blends client-centered listening with approaches that focus on how thoughts, emotions, and relationships shape experience.
He pays attention to attachment and how early relationships affect current bonds. The aim is to create a steady space for exploring emotions and testing new ways of coping. Gary encourages a paced, realistic plan.
He supports people trying to improve sleep, manage anger, navigate separation, set boundaries, or rebuild self-esteem. Work in therapy is collaborative and paced to each person's goals. People who want straightforward, strengths-based help with anxiety or life changes often find his manner calm and practical.
How attachment work and practical therapy translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds and reactions. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships, work through attachment wounds, and practice new ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy. In this approach the therapist follows the person's lead, offers gentle reflection, and helps people find their own solutions to anxiety, grief, or life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gary will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest methods that fit those needs. The plan can change as therapy progresses so the approach stays responsive and collaborative.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when deeper emotional work is needed. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is required. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send thoughts between sessions or choose a less formal way to process feelings. These options help make regular contact and consistent progress easier to maintain.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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