About Gary
Gary Youssef helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, trauma, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. He also supports people dealing with sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, career stress, ADHD, and major life changes. Gary brings 22 years of clinical experience to his work in Ohio.
He holds LMFT credentials - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California and Ohio - and uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions.
How Gary works
Gary keeps sessions focused and goal-oriented. He uses clear tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to identify patterns and try small changes that make daily life easier. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone is weighing change or feeling stuck.
Systemic ideas guide conversations about family roles and interaction patterns. In practice he emphasizes problem-solving and skill building. Sessions often include discussion, short exercises, and specific steps to try between meetings.
He explains ideas plainly and checks in about what is helpful. Parents appreciate advice that translates to home routines and real moments. His background includes long-term clinical work in outpatient settings and roles supporting pediatric behavioral health and military family life services.
That experience shaped a practical approach to common concerns like caregiver stress, chronic illness, and blended family challenges. Gary also draws on experience with adoption, attachment, and developmental differences. Outside of clinical work he is a father and enjoys athletics and cooking.
He aims to make therapy a manageable part of a busy life, with concrete next steps and clear goals for progress.
Gary lists 4 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.
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LMFT, LIMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Gary often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. CBT breaks problems into manageable parts and is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns. He also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term goals and focus on small, practical changes that can make daily life better. This approach works well for parenting challenges, career stress, and coping with life transitions.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. He discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods over time. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what the client wants to change and how they prefer to work.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people connect face to face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins and written reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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