Trevor Gray

Do you often feel anxious without a clear cause, find it hard to slow down, feel emotionally overwhelmed or disconnected?

These experiences often signal deeper emotions that are hard to access due to unresolved past experiences or trauma. Throughout life, especially in early relationships, we develop strategies to maintain connections and manage anxiety around our emotions. While once adaptive, these strategies often become barriers in relationships and to living authentically. By collaboratively uncovering these defensive strategies and processing underlying emotions, we can help you move toward a more connected, relaxed, and fulfilling life.

Here is what you might expect during our work together:

In our sessions, I create a relaxed space where you can share the challenges that brought you to therapy. I listen attentively, without judgment, and together we explore your experiences, thoughts, feelings, values, and goals. Once we develop a shared understanding of your hopes for the future, we work on building awareness of old emotional patterns that may be getting in the way of your therapeutic goals. Together, we process difficult emotions and past experiences, and collaboratively develop new, preferred emotional patterns in session.

My practice is primarily grounded in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), an attachment-based, experiential, relational, and emotion-focused therapy. I have received advanced training (AEDP Institute) and supervision in this approach. I am also trained in various other modalities, including Narrative Therapy. I work collaboratively with clients to tailor our sessions to meet your unique needs and goals.

My approach to therapy is both relational and experiential. This means that we use our therapeutic relationship as grounds to experience and develop new ways of being in the world – rather than simply discussing emotional and relational patterns, we experience doing things differently in session. By exploring and processing difficult emotions in the presence of a caring and nonjudgmental other, our brains and bodies register a new way of relating to both feelings and people. Through this process, clients often report thinking more clearly and compassionately about themselves, while feeling more secure and confident in their lives outside the therapy room.

I invite you to connect for a free 15-minute phone consultation so we can explore how we can work together to meet your therapy goals.