About Gary
Gary Zarchy is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Arizona with 25 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and trauma. Gary aims to guide and encourage clients as they work toward clear goals.
He believes the answers are already in the client and that his role is to educate, cheerlead, and advocate. Sessions emphasize practical steps and real goals rather than jargon.
Background and approach
People find straightforward strategies for coping, making decisions, and improving relationships. Gary has long experience with LGBTQ issues, grief, intimacy concerns, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. He also addresses complex needs such as co-occurring disorders, substance use, family of origin dynamics, and end-of-life concerns.
He integrates different methods to match each person’s situation. He earned a master’s degree from the University of Phoenix and has taught in that university’s counseling department for 18 years, both in person and online. Teaching informs his clinical work and keeps his approaches practical and current.
In sessions he uses client-centered listening combined with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, existential ideas, and EMDR when appropriate. His goal is to help people reach their stated aims and leave counseling feeling more capable and independent.
How therapeutic approaches fit in online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist creates space for people to tell their story, reflect, and decide what matters most. This approach helps with motivation, self-esteem, and relationship concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes because it gives concrete skills to practice between sessions.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is used to address strong reactions tied to past trauma. In practice it combines focused memory work with techniques that help reduce emotional intensity and improve daily functioning.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels comfortable. Together they try methods, track progress, and adjust the plan if something isn’t helpful.
Online therapy lets people access these approaches through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and messaging can allow shorter check-ins, quick reflections between sessions, and more flexible scheduling. These options make therapy more convenient and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
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- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English