About Doyle
Doyle DeGraw is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey and New York. He helps people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting pressure, addictions, eating concerns, and low self-esteem. Doyle writes plainly and works to give clients tools they can use between sessions.
He spends time looking at how past relationships shape today’s problems. That can mean talking through family of origin issues, attachment concerns, communication patterns, or control struggles that keep repeating.
Background and approach
Doyle believes many struggles link back to relational trauma, so he gently traces patterns to find triggers. His approach is person-centered and practical. He blends cognitive behavioral ideas with attachment-focused work and relationship methods to build new habits.
Sessions aim to be straightforward so people leave with a clear plan and steps to try at home. Doyle has about 10 years as a licensed counselor and decades of experience in pastoral care. That background informs a direct, compassionate style that balances challenge with support.
He often helps clients work through grief and ambiguous losses, such as job changes or shifting family roles. People who prefer clear feedback and concrete tools tend to respond well to Doyle’s way of working. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How attachment work and CBT translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy helps identify how early relationships shape current reactions and bonds, and it focuses on rebuilding safer ways of relating. This approach can be useful for people struggling with trust, connection, or repeating relationship patterns.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and priorities, giving space for reflection while the therapist follows the client's lead. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and offers concrete strategies to change them, which can help with anxiety, panic, or low mood.
Doyle views finding the right approach as a shared task. He will talk with each person about their goals, try different methods when needed, and adjust the plan based on what works. The process is collaborative and practical, aiming to leave clients with clear steps to practice between sessions.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful for fuller conversations and nonverbal cues, phone calls work when bandwidth or hands-free time is needed, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection. These options offer flexibility so therapy can continue around work, parenting, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English