Gary Zarchy, LPC

Gary Zarchy is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience. He centers sessions on the person in front of him and helps people find their own solutions. He aims to guide, educate, cheerlead, and advocate while clients work toward clear goals.

He has extensive background supporting people struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, and substance use. He also works with concerns around relationships, grief, intimacy, anger, and career stress. His practice includes focus on aging and geriatric issues and hospice and end-of-life counseling when those topics arise.

Gary earned a master’s degree from the University of Phoenix and has taught in that university's counseling department for eighteen years. He brings classroom experience to clinical work, using practical tools drawn from several approaches. Clients can expect straightforward conversations and structured steps they can try between sessions.

His style is collaborative and goal oriented. He combines client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to help people manage symptoms and try new behaviors. He also uses EMDR as one option for processing traumatic memories when appropriate.

Gary describes his aim as empowering clients to meet their goals and eventually leave therapy when they are ready. He focuses on making progress measurable and actionable so people can see how their efforts lead to change.

How approaches like CBT and EMDR work online

Client-centered therapy is about listening carefully and following each person's pace. Online sessions can use that same focus to help clients talk through problems and set achievable goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives simple exercises people can try between sessions to change patterns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps process disturbing memories using guided attention and can be adapted to a remote format when clinically appropriate.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, personal preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Then a plan is shaped collaboratively and adjusted as progress is seen.

The original biography does not list which online session formats are offered, so confirm the available options before booking. Online work can make scheduling easier and fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or avoid travel time. These practical benefits help people maintain momentum and fold therapeutic work into everyday life.