I’m Vanessa Gray, an authorized clinical social worker and psychotherapist providing individual therapy and couples therapy to adults in West Palm Beach. I have an extremely personalized, collaborative, and integrative approach in which I appropriate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment Theory, and Psychodynamic Therapy to support clients and their loved ones with anxiety and stress, codependency and boundaries, relationship challenges, and overall mental health support.

Vanessa subsequently worked and trained at some of the most renowned behavioral health centers in Palm Beach County where she treated various substance use disorders, codependency, trauma, anxiety, depression, anger management, and relationship challenges in individual therapy, couples therapy, and family therapy sessions.

I will work to recognize those obstacles to passionate self-expression that conflict with the accomplishment of your goals. Sometimes, below the surface, we hold onto beliefs that prevent us from having healthy relationships with personally, our family, and others.

https://www.therapistinwestpalmbeach.com/

• INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

• COUPLES COUNSELING

• CODEPENDENCY AND RECOVERY

My practice was created to provide a comfortable and non-judgmental environment in which my clients can feel safe to explore areas of themselves or their relationships that are causing psychological or emotional distress in their professional or personal life. I appreciate and respect the strength of my clients to live an examined life and am passionate about helping them achieve their therapeutic goals and objectives through collaboration and evidenced-based practice. I use different therapeutic approaches, depending on the client’s needs and comfort level, to achieve freedom from the negative impact of their previous experiences, life transitions, or daily challenges and stressors. I believe that ultimately, everyone is seeking happiness and I hope to be an insightful and supportive guide on that journey.

Does everything look okay on the outside…career, finances, relationship, but you experience anxiety and feel as if something is missing or you are hiding behaviors from colleagues and friends?

Do you look back on choices and wonder why you haven’t achieved happiness or success in certain aspects of your life?

Do you experience anxiety or depression, often or always, but worry about being judged or your concerns falling on an unsympathetic ear?

You obviously have strength and ability or you would not have made it to this point, however, it is extremely difficult to understand the underlying causes of your own thought processes and behaviors on your own.

Talk therapy, within individual therapy, is a powerful tool that can help you work through life transitions and challenges, achieve your goals, and find relief from symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Did you vow to never have relationship challenges like your parents and find yourself hearing one of them in yourself as you argue with your significant other?

Do you find yourself wanting to maintain a long-term relationship with someone but feel yourself pulling away emotionally or physically?

Are you keeping certain behaviors or activities from your partner?

Do you struggle with boundaries or codependency?

Relationship issues like these are not uncommon. People typically learn how to be in a relationship from their family of origin and then bring their family system’s beliefs and behaviors into their intimate relationships.

Couples therapy can provide a safe environment to explore and understand yourself and your partner and change codependency, boundary, and attachment dynamics within the relationship.

Have you addressed unhealthy behaviors in a 12-step program and are still struggling with self-esteem or other forms of self destructive or self sabotaging behavior?

Have you or your partner begun a journey in recovery with great enthusiasm only to feel that the consequences of your previous maladaptive behaviors may be too great to overcome?

These experiences are not uncommon. Both individuals and couples that have dealt with these issues are often baffled by the fact that their thoughts and actions are not automatically healthy in recovery.

Codependency, resentment, and new manifestations of unhealthy behavior are just a few of the challenges that individual and couples therapy can help address and resolve.

Codependency Therapy helps the patient become aware of their unreasonable thoughts and beliefs so they can view the situation more realistically and react in a healthier way.