About Gary
Gary Bray is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 23 years of clinical experience in Florida. He focuses on practical help for addictions, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with major life changes. He approaches work with straightforward respect for each person's strengths and choices.
He uses a client-centered stance that puts the person's story first. Sessions let people talk through what feels most important while the therapist listens and reflects.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is also part of his work, helping people spot unhelpful thoughts and try out new behaviors that reduce distress. Existential ideas guide conversations about meaning, responsibility, and making choices in hard situations. These discussions can help when life shifts leave someone feeling lost or stuck.
He blends these methods to match each person's goals and pace. Over two decades of practice have brought experience with a wide range of concerns. In addition to core specialties, he has supported people facing aging and geriatric issues, avoidant and dependent personality patterns, codependency, commitment and control struggles, divorce and separation, domestic violence, and substance problems.
He also works with fatherhood issues, first responder stress, guilt, shame, impulsivity, and jealousy. Gary aims to make the first steps manageable. He invites people to name a small, clear goal for sessions and then build from there.
He encourages honest talk, practical steps, and steady progress at a comfortable pace.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist reflects what matters to the person and helps them grow at their own pace. This approach is useful for people who need someone to hear their story and build confidence.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Online sessions break issues into small steps and try practical experiments between meetings. This method often helps with depression, addictive behaviors, and low self-esteem by giving concrete tools to use day to day.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, try different ways of working, and adjust methods as needed. That collaborative process helps match tools to what actually helps in someone's life.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people work face to face, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and text messaging works well for brief updates or ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English