About Gary
Gary Grant is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with five decades of experience in education, corrections, and clinical work. He offers steady, direct support for people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and questions about identity. His manner is straightforward and practical, focused on helping people manage symptoms and build everyday coping skills.
Gary's background includes long-term roles as a teacher, probation officer, and therapist. He has worked across diverse cultural settings and spent years with Native American and Alaskan Native communities.
Background and approach
This history shaped a cross-cultural perspective he brings into sessions. He draws on approaches that center the person's experience and strengths. That includes client-centered methods that focus on clear listening and collaboration, cognitive tools to shift unhelpful thinking, and attachment-informed ideas about how relationships affect mood and behavior.
He also uses hypnotherapy techniques when appropriate. Sessions tend to be practical and skills-focused. Gary helps people learn stress management, anxiety-reduction strategies, mood regulation, and ways to handle grief, anger, or problems with sleep and eating.
He also supports those working through identity-related concerns and addiction recovery. Over his career Gary has worked with many clinical issues, including bipolar disorder, PTSD-related problems, dissociation, and compassion fatigue. He emphasizes resilience and building everyday routines that reduce distress and improve functioning.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Gary commonly uses client-centered work that focuses on listening and collaboration to help people clarify goals and feel understood. This approach helps when someone needs steady support, clearer decision-making, or help improving relationships.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which teaches concrete skills to identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and managing mood swings. Attachment-based ideas are woven in to understand how early and current relationships shape coping, trust, and intimacy concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning can include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break, live chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing notes and short updates. These options make it easier to schedule care around daily life and stay consistent with treatment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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