About Gary
Gary Youssef is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, relationship strain, addictions, trauma, grief, ADHD, and related challenges. He writes plainly and focuses on practical steps that people can use right away.
Gary keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. He uses brief, direct interventions to help people manage symptoms and improve daily routines. He also works with concerns like sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, career stress, and caregiving strain.
Background and approach
His background includes long-term clinical work in outpatient settings and roles supporting pediatric behavioral health. That history informs a practical approach to problems that affect daily life. He draws on common-sense strategies and tested techniques to help people make small changes that add up.
In sessions he combines problem-solving with skills practice. Clients can expect clear suggestions, short-term goals, and check-ins on progress. He also considers family dynamics and system-level factors when those are relevant to a person's goals.
Gary offers multiple online options to fit different schedules. He speaks English and is licensed in Ohio as LMFT and LIMFT. He frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps people identify what will work best for them.
How Gary Uses Structured Approaches Online
Gary often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating changes, and many daily habits.He also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to help people identify clear goals and small steps they can test quickly. This approach is brief and action-oriented, and it suits people who want progress they can measure week to week.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gary will talk with clients about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. That collaborative process means the plan can change based on what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates, ask brief questions, or check progress between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family life while keeping a steady rhythm of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California, Ohio
- Languages
- English
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