Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
With 50 years as teacher/educator, probation officer and mental health therapist, I am a member of The National Board of Certified Counselors and have been licensed in Montana, Oregon, Alaska. I am presently licensed in Washington State. I provide psychotherapy for individuals to include children, adolescents, and adults, as well as, couples and family therapy. My initial orientation began with Rogers and client-centered therapy, and moved to integrative, and recovery, utilizing client strengths moving to resilient mental health. My speciality is of a multi and cross cultural orientation given my Native American and African Heritage. I have amassed considerable experience working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and same sex clients, and the unique psychological issues present in the Native/African American Heritage, I spent six years on The Salish/Kootenai Reservation in Montana and four years working with Alaskan Natives in Fairbanks, Alaska. My experience with adolescents has been in a residential“positive peer orientation” to include individual, group and family therapies, cross-culturally.
Formal Education and Training: I hold the Bachelor of Arts Degree, with Majors in Psychology-Sociology, with (research in suicidality), Education, Theatre and Fine Arts from Western State College of Colorado; Master’s Degree in Education, Psychology, Guidance and Counseling from the University of Northern Colorado; Masters of Fine Arts from The University of Montana, with major course work in theatre and group psychotherapy to include two independent studies with Robert Ammons Senior, Psychological Test Specialists, publisher of the KTSA. I also became a certified clinical hypnotherapist as I had gained experience as a hypnotherapist with Jack and Helen Watkins, utilizing “Ego-State Therapy. Finally, I completed major course work in clinical psychology toward the PsyD, at George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon. My most recent employment was as a group therapist providing “mindfulness “ training for emotional regulation, given a varied population to include those suffering depression and anxiety as a result of PTSD associated with violence and severe abuse. This has been inclusive of anger management associated with domestic violence and bipolar disorder. My specialization with cognitive therapy with schizophrenics was experiential over a five year period wherein I collaborated with the unit psychiatrist.
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Gary Grant brings five decades of professional experience as a teacher and educator, a probation officer, and a mental health therapist. He is a member of the National Board for Certified Counselors and is licensed to practice in Washington State as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor.
He provides psychotherapy for individuals across the lifespan – children, adolescents, and adults – as well as couples and family therapy. His clinical orientation began with Rogers and client-centered therapy and evolved into an integrative, recovery-focused approach that emphasizes client strengths and the development of resilient mental health.
Grant’s practice is informed by a multi- and cross-cultural perspective rooted in his Native American and African heritage. He has extensive experience working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and same-sex clients, and with the distinctive psychological issues present within Native and African American communities. He spent six years on the Salish/Kootenai Reservation in Montana and four years working with Alaskan Natives in Fairbanks, Alaska.
His work with adolescents includes residential programs that emphasized a positive peer orientation and incorporated individual, group, and family therapies across cultural settings. Over the years he has also served as a group therapist teaching mindfulness techniques for emotional regulation to diverse groups, including people experiencing depression and anxiety linked to PTSD from violence and severe abuse, and he has addressed anger management in contexts of domestic violence and bipolar disorder.
Grant’s formal training encompasses a Bachelor of Arts from Western State College of Colorado with majors in psychology and sociology plus studies in education, theatre, and fine arts, including research in suicidality. He earned a Master’s Degree in Education with emphasis in psychology, guidance, and counseling from the University of Northern Colorado, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Montana with coursework in theatre and group psychotherapy, including two independent studies with Robert Ammons Senior, a psychological test specialist and publisher of the KTSA. He became a certified clinical hypnotherapist after training with Jack and Helen Watkins in Ego-State Therapy, and he completed major coursework in clinical psychology toward a PsyD at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon.
Earlier in his career he held licenses in Montana, Oregon, and Alaska before his current Washington license. He also gained hands-on experience providing cognitive therapy for people with schizophrenia over a five-year period in collaboration with a unit psychiatrist.
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