About Gary
Gary Jacobs is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of professional experience. He focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, intimacy-related issues, and self-esteem. Gary works in a direct, practical way to help people get through hard moments and move toward greater stability.
He brings extensive crisis experience from work in emergency rooms, jails and prisons, substance-abuse rehabilitation, and nursing homes. That background means he is used to high-pressure situations and sudden change.
How Gary works
Gary also holds a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy, which informs how he looks at relationship patterns and communication problems. Sessions tend to be collaborative and straightforward. Gary treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them build on strengths.
He offers concrete tools for coping with grief, anxiety, chronic illness or pain, substance concerns, and problems around attachment and abandonment. He also addresses practical relationship challenges such as commitment issues, blended family tensions, divorce and separation, and fatherhood concerns. Communication skills, boundary setting, and working through control or trust issues are common session topics.
Gary provides multiple online formats to fit different needs, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. He works in English and practices in Florida as an LMHC.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Gary uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on real-world change. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches coping strategies for anxiety, stress, and chronic illness, such as grounding exercises, breathing work, and activity plans. These techniques help reduce acute distress and build everyday routines that feel more manageable.He also applies relationally focused methods that look at attachment patterns, communication habits, and commitment concerns. This kind of work helps people understand why they react in certain ways with partners or caregivers and practice clearer, more direct conversations.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gary works collaboratively to figure out which methods match a person’s goals and preferences, and he adjusts tools as needs change. Clients take an active role in choosing what feels most useful for them.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat can help with in-the-moment support, and messaging lets people exchange notes or handle brief updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules.
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