Gary Youssef, LMFT, LIMFT
California · 22 years in practice
Gary Youssef is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of experience.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 45456 · expires October 2027
- LIMFT, Ohio
- F.2500504 · expires May 2027
- NPI
- 1609975168 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 22
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Gary
Gary Youssef is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, addiction concerns, trauma, grief, and sleep or eating difficulties. He also supports people dealing with career pressure, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and life changes.
Gary takes a straightforward, practical approach in sessions. He listens to what matters most, then works with each person to set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
He uses conversations and simple exercises so clients can try new ways of coping between sessions. His work blends family systems thinking with techniques from cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused methods. That means he pays attention to relationships and patterns, and also focuses on small changes that make life easier.
He uses motivational interviewing to help people find reasons to change and stick with new habits. Gary's background includes long-term clinical work in outpatient and pediatric settings, and experience supporting military families. He has worked in hospitals and in the community with children, adolescents, adults, and families.
This gives him a broad view of common stressors and practical strategies that work across ages. Outside of therapy he is a father who enjoys athletics and cooking. His clinical title is LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and he also holds an Ohio LIMFT license.
He sees clients in Ohio and offers online options to make scheduling easier.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Gary lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Gary names
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Online support
Approaches and online options for flexible care
Gary blends Systemic Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address personal difficulties and relationship patterns. Systemic Therapy looks at how relationships and routines shape problems and aims to change those patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating issues.He also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. That approach is useful for addictions, lifestyle shifts, and situations where someone feels stuck. He approaches the work collaboratively and will help you decide which combination of methods fits your goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for standard therapy sessions when face-to-face style interaction helps. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text messaging are handy for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or scheduling messages and can fit into work breaks or busy days. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and to use therapy in ways that fit a client's life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does he help people with?
He supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, parenting and relationship strain, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, and related life changes.
What is his therapeutic style like?
Sessions are practical and goal oriented. He listens first, then helps set small steps clients can try between sessions.
What kind of experience does he bring?
He has 22 years of experience in outpatient and pediatric settings and has worked with thousands of clients across clinical and community roles.
What credentials and location are listed?
He holds LMFT and LIMFT credentials and practices in Ohio under the CA LMFT and OH LIMFT notations provided.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only and international clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions delivered?
Sessions are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
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