About Dennis
Dennis Grau is a licensed professional counselor practicing in New Jersey with seven years of experience. He focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. He speaks English and Spanish and works with people who want steady, down-to-earth support.
Dennis centers sessions on the client’s strengths and lived experience. He treats the person, not just a list of symptoms. Conversations aim to identify small, doable steps that build confidence and motivation over time.
Background and approach
He encourages clients to name goals and to try new ways of coping between meetings. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented while staying respectful of each person’s pace. Dennis helps people address communication problems, guilt and shame, impulsivity, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
He also focuses on men’s issues, panic attacks, social anxiety, forgiveness, and developing self-love. His style is supportive and empowering. He asks questions, listens closely, and offers tools that clients can use right away.
Progress often shows up in clearer choices, steadier mood, or less frequent intense reactions. People who prefer a calm, practical approach tend to do well with his work. He helps clients break big problems into steps, track what helps, and build routines that support better days.
Dennis also accepts international clients and offers therapy in Spanish when preferred.
Practical approaches for online support
Many evidence-based techniques focus on changing thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try different, more balanced ways of thinking. This can reduce anxiety, social fear, and low mood by changing how situations are interpreted.Another approach emphasizes learning new behaviors through practice and small experiments. Clients try new responses to stress, test coping strategies between sessions, and track what helps. This method is useful for impulsivity, panic attacks, addictions, and improving confidence.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they review what feels helpful and make adjustments as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for many people. Video calls let sessions feel close to an in-person visit, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish