About Garry
Garry Wiley Jr. is a licensed social worker in North Carolina who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family difficulties, and challenges like addiction and trauma. He meets people where they are and focuses on straightforward, practical support. Conversations are meant to be open and nonjudgmental so people can say what they really feel.
He takes a calm, client-centered approach that prioritizes each person’s goals. Sessions often include skill-building for handling strong emotions, improving communication, and changing unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Garry also uses techniques from mindfulness to help people stay present and grounded during hard moments. Over five years of practice have included work with people facing parenting strains, career transitions, anger, intimacy questions, and issues like ADHD, bipolar concerns, or compulsive behaviors.
He pays attention to everyday problems such as control issues, isolation, and guilt so those concerns can be addressed in concrete ways. Garry aims to help people identify steps they can try between sessions, including coping strategies and communication exercises. He encourages collaboration so clients feel part of the plan and can measure progress.
Small changes over time are framed as real progress toward a more manageable life. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Garry works with a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is handled through an online matching and booking process.
Approach and online therapy options
Garry uses client-centered work to help people set goals and shape sessions around what matters to them. This approach focuses on listening closely and building a plan based on a person’s own priorities.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical steps to change patterns that cause distress. DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, adds skills for regulating strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships when feelings feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Garry will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before and then recommend methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn’t possible, and live chat or text messaging for shorter check-ins and ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work or family schedules, accommodate lower bandwidth or camera-free needs, and provide quick methods for follow-up between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English