Gary MitchellTherapist in Statewide Telehealth, VT

Credentials

PsyD, LADC, ICGC-I, MAC, NLNC

Role

Therapist

Recovery focus

CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Spots the thought-feeling-action loops that fuel urges, then rewires them with practical skills you take into the moment.

Person-centered therapy

Person-Centered Therapy. Roger’s humanistic approach. The clinician offers unconditional positive regard and follows your lead rather than directing the work. Slow, warm, relationship-first.

Strength-based therapy

A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.

MBCT

A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.

Motivational interviewing

Motivational Interviewing. A collaborative conversation that strengthens your own reasons for change rather than arguing you into it.

Culturally sensitive therapy

A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.

Humanistic therapy

Humanistic Therapy. Centers your own capacity to heal, with the clinician as a non-judgmental partner rather than an expert prescribing fixes. Roots in Carl Rogers; warm, relationship-first.

Existential therapy

Existential Therapy. Explores the bigger questions, meaning, freedom, mortality, that addiction often runs from. Useful when "why am I doing this with my life?" is the question underneath the use.