About Grant
Grant Cruz is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 17 years of clinical experience. He helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, or career uncertainty. He speaks English and Spanish and aims to make conversations straightforward and easy to follow.
He focuses on building an open space where people can say what they think and feel without judgment. Sessions are practical and goal-minded, with attention to what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
Grant encourages small steps that fit a person’s life and schedule. Over nearly two decades of work he has supported people through loss, abuse, and major life transitions. He has also helped clients navigate relationship-related concerns like attachment and codependency, and life-stage issues such as aging or caregiver stress.
His background includes work with a broad range of challenges, including chronic illness and body image concerns. Grant draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address both emotional symptoms and real-world problems. He often helps clients clarify goals, build coping skills, and regain confidence after setbacks.
People who prefer Spanish-language sessions can choose to meet in Spanish. Therapy with Grant typically emphasizes collaboration and steady progress. He frames the work as a team effort where the client’s priorities guide each session.
Practical strategies and gentle accountability are used to move toward clearer thinking and more effective daily routines.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Grant uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and real progress. One approach helps people learn specific coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-management strategies that reduce immediate distress and improve daily functioning. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and difficult memories in a paced way so people can regain control and move forward without being overwhelmed.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Grant works with clients to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. He emphasizes practical steps and checks in regularly to make sure the work feels relevant and achievable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for in-depth sessions that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when camera use is not wanted or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are available for shorter check-ins, homework support, or when a quick message fits into a busy day. These options make it easier to sustain therapy around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish