About Gary
Gary Grant is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with five decades of experience in education, probation, and mental health work. He brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, mood changes, and ADHD. Gary aims to help people find steady routines and clearer thinking when life feels overwhelming.
He uses a client-centered foundation that respects each person’s story. From there he blends cognitive behavioral ideas and attachment-focused thinking to help people change unhelpful habits and improve relationships.
Background and approach
He also draws on hypnotherapy and existential ideas when those approaches fit a person's goals. Gary has worked across many communities and cultural backgrounds, including time living and working with Native American and Alaskan Native populations. That background shapes how he sees cultural identity, belonging, and the ways trauma can affect daily life.
He has long experience addressing issues LGBTQ people often raise and understands multicultural concerns. Therapy sessions include practical skills for mood and anxiety management, mindfulness exercises for emotional regulation, and step-by-step plans to handle caregiving, parenting, work stress, or addiction-related problems. He has helped people dealing with grief, sleep problems, body image, and chronic illness to make small, useful changes.
Gary’s practice supports people through career transitions, interpersonal conflict, and life changes that feel overwhelming. He encourages straightforward talk, goal setting, and approaches that fit each person’s pace and resources.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Gary often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and collaboration so people set goals at their own pace. Cognitive behavioral work teaches concrete skills for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and coping with mood swings.He also uses Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. That approach can help when intimacy, trust, or repeated relationship problems are part of the difficulty. Together with the client he looks at which approach or mix of approaches best fits the issue and the person's goals, so treatment evolves from session to session rather than being fixed up front.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work face to face when you want visual cues; phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or you need a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging are handy for quick coaching, tracking progress between sessions, or when writing helps you sort your thoughts. These options make scheduling easier and allow therapy to fit work, family, and travel demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- 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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