About Grant
Grant Cruz makes a clear, practical place to start for someone feeling overwhelmed. He meets people where they are and focuses on helping them make small, manageable changes. Grant is a New York licensed mental health counselor with 17 years of experience.
He speaks English and Spanish and emphasizes a calm, nonjudgmental approach. In sessions he creates space for people to say what they are thinking and feeling. He works with common problems such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and career struggles.
How Grant works
He listens and helps people find steps that fit their daily life rather than offering one-size-fits-all solutions. Grant also pays attention to related challenges that can make everyday life harder. Those include attachment concerns, abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, caregiving stress, chronic illness or pain, body image, codependency, and commitment worries.
He addresses a wide array of personality and neurodiversity issues in straightforward language. Sessions aim to build confidence and coping tools. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what changes feel possible.
Grant supports people as they try new ways of handling stress and relationships. He offers therapy remotely through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. The goal is practical help that fits into busy schedules and real lives.
What Grant works with
The areas below are the ones Grant selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-based techniques for remote therapy
Grant uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in a practical way. One common approach focuses on building skills to manage anxiety and stress through hands-on strategies, breath work, and step-by-step planning to reduce overwhelm. This helps people who feel constantly on edge or who struggle with day-to-day pressure.Another approach emphasizes processing trauma and difficult life events by pacing conversations and grounding during sessions. This method supports people coping with abuse, loss, or painful memories by helping them gradually feel more able to manage painful emotions.
Finding the right method is part of the work and happens together. The therapist discusses a person’s goals, preferences, and life demands, and then recommends approaches to try. That plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear, keeping the process collaborative.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when visual cues help, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler to join, and text-based messaging or live chat work well for shorter check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These options offer flexibility for different schedules, energy levels, and comfort with being on camera.
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