About Gary
Gary Bray is a licensed mental health counselor with 23 years of experience helping people navigate addiction, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. He works from a straightforward, person-focused stance and encourages clients to use their own strengths to move forward. He emphasizes a client-centered approach that puts the person's perspective first.
Sessions are conversational and tuned to each person's pace. That makes it easier to build motivation and tackle issues like substance use or low confidence.
How Gary works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of his toolbox when thoughts and behaviors keep someone stuck. CBT is used to identify unhelpful thinking and to practice specific, manageable behavior changes that reduce symptoms over time. Existential therapy helps when people are facing big questions about meaning, responsibility, or life direction.
That approach supports honest reflection and practical choices, which can be useful during divorce, retirement, or other life transitions. He also addresses related concerns such as aging and geriatric issues, codependency, commitment and control struggles, fatherhood challenges, first responder stress, and guilt or shame. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients.
Gary aims to make the start of therapy simple. He invites people to take a small step, complete a brief questionnaire, and schedule a first meeting to see how the work fits their goals.
Gary lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Gary works with
The areas below are the ones Gary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Gary uses client-centered therapy to meet people where they are, listening closely and shaping sessions around their priorities. That approach helps when someone needs support rebuilding confidence or deciding next steps after a big life change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to pinpoint unhelpful thoughts and practice small behavior changes. Online sessions can include straightforward exercises and homework tasks to try between meetings. Existential therapy is available for people wrestling with meaning, responsibility, or life purpose; it focuses on honest reflection and practical choices rather than abstract theory.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. He will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques over time so the work fits the person rather than forcing a rigid method.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a break at work, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging is useful for quick reflections or progress notes. These options make it easier to keep momentum, practice new skills, and follow through between sessions.
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