Gary Gabbard
Support for family life and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Gary
Gary Gabbard is a Licensed Professional Counselor who began his counseling career after earning a master’s degree in counseling in 1997. He opened Passionately Ever After Counseling in Collin County, Texas in 1999 and has over two decades of clinical work. He has provided one-on-one therapy, worked with couples and teenagers, and supervised counseling interns.
Gary brings 23 years of experience as an LPC to his practice and focuses on practical support for families and parenting concerns among other issues.
Background and approach
Gary uses straightforward, human language in sessions. He helps people name what matters to them and make small, doable changes. Sessions often focus on real-life steps rather than jargon.
He aims to help parents and families handle stress, communication problems, and changes in routine. His background includes contract work with outplacement firms, an alcohol treatment center, and a methadone clinic. That range gives him experience with addiction-related and career-transition concerns.
He also has long experience addressing grief, trauma, and relationship challenges. Gary draws on a few counseling styles depending on the need. He leans into approaches such as client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify patterns and try new behaviors.
He also uses mindfulness practices to help people manage stress in daily life. In sessions he focuses on the person behind the problem. He encourages clients to reconnect with what they value and to act from that place.
The work aims to restore energy and meaning in everyday family life.
How Gary’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and helping the client set the pace. It is useful when someone needs a safe space to talk and to reconnect with values that guide parenting and family choices. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change them. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and conflict patterns that affect family life.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Gary will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then suggest techniques to try. He checks in as therapy progresses and adjusts the plan to match what is actually helping the client or family.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging offer flexible ways to touch base between appointments or when a quick check-in is needed. These options help families access support without major travel or time away from daily responsibilities.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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