Chuck Gray, Marriage Counselor in Houston, 77074

Chuck Gray, Ph.D.

Profession(s):
Marriage & Family Therapy, Psychotherapy, Counseling
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
Primary License:
Licensed Psychologist - 23341

My Approach to Helping

Chuck Gray, Ph.D. is a marriage counseling specialist. Marital issues may be saddening, disappointing, frustrating, and aggravating. Sometimes we feel underappreciated, sometimes we feel emotionally unheard, sometimes we feel we can't win. There is hope. At Chuck Gray, Ph.D. & Associates, we seek to provide the warm compassionate environment helpful in allowing you to feel safe disclosing and understanding your innermost behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. Spouses learn to nurturingly and supportively listen to and understand each other's deep thoughts and feelings. A wide variety of helpful state-of-the-art psychological techniques may then be used to assess in a friendly way the often hidden underlying origins of your situations. We together clarify your learned interaction patterns as you discover how to bring out the best in each other while learning how to bring out the best in yourselves. Numerous constructive psychological techniques may then be used to help you develop specific marriage enhancement plans and gently guide you in helping each other through the process of fulfilling your marital goals. At Chuck Gray, Ph.D. & Associates we are committed to providing the best service to maximize your ability to warmly and clearly sort through your issues and mutually fulfill your relationship desires.
Chuck Gray, Ph.D. specializes in Marriage Counseling and Singles' Issues while also providing counseling in the following areas: Communication, Affairs, Trust, Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Dysfunction, Codependency, Dating Issues, Premarital Counseling, Self-Esteem, Social Fears, Phobias, Panic Attacks, Alcohol Abuse, and Grief/Loss. He has extensive experience and training in assessing and treating a wide variety of psychological concerns, and he serves as a referral source for those who might be better helped by others within or outside the clinic. An evenings and Saturdays psychologist, a female psychologist, and a Spanish-speaking counselor are also available at the clinic. All are warm, experienced, and professional. Please call 713-774-2122 for more information.

More Info About My Practice

Clinic Practices and Staff Support:

Dr. Gray offers a free introductory hour immediately before the initial session. Evening and Saturday appointments are available with other counselors here. Counseling at the clinic may also be provided by a bilingual counselor. Some of our counselors offer discounted fees based upon your income. Friendly admisitrative staff members are available Monday through Friday from 9AM-7PM. They may provide information about the clinic, answer insurance questions, file any insurance, and schedule appointments.

Biographical Information:

Dr. Chuck Gray has been licensed by the State of Texas as a psychologist since 1987. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Houston. The program is approved by the American Psychological Association. While there he taught as a teaching fellow eleven semesters of the Human Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Living course. He previously received bachelor degrees in both psychology and physics from Southern Methodist University.

Providing the public with useful psychological information has been a priority for Dr. Chuck Gray. He has presented hundreds of highly rated seminars and workshops. He served as author of a relationships column for Cover Magazine. His work has been featured by the Houston Chronicle and numerous Houston Media Source television programs. He has also served as a psychological expert for the Houston Chronicle, several magazines, and almost all the television channels based in Houston.

Over a hundred experts have provided Dr. Chuck Gray with further training, including specialty training as a Mars and Venus counselor by Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus author John Gray. Dr. Chuck Gray is a professional member of the Harris County Mental Health Association as well as the American and Texas Psychological Associations. He also served for seven years as an executive committee member for the Houston Psychological Association.

Dr. Chuck Gray has individually taught and supervised other professionals to conduct marriage counseling, and he has led workshops to train other professionals in marriage counseling.

Chuck lives in the Houston area with his loving wife Laurie and delightful daughters Cheryl and Valerie.

Location:

The clinic is conveniently located on the inbound feeder of the Southwest Freeway on the inbound side of South Gessner in a nine story building called The Center. The address is 8303 SW FWY, Suite 330, Houston, Texas 77074. For more information, friendly staff members are available from 9AM-7PM to assist you. Please call 713-774-2122. If you send an E-mail, please include your phone number(s).

Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With

Marriage counseling is my number one speciality. Since the time I applied to graduate school, I have steered my training towards adult relationship issues. In my clinical psychology graduate program, I studied under James McCary, Ph.D. who had started the first undergraduate course in the country in adult relationships and at the time had helped launch all the other such programs around the country. He had been nominated for president of the American Psychological association. I taught eleven semesters of the Marriage and Family Living course as a teaching fellow, then went on to present hundreds of seminars and workshops on adult relationship issues, including those to train other mental health professsionals in marriage counseling. Since 1987 I have had the pleasure of spending the vast majority of my professional life directly helping clients fulfill their relationship dreams and training other mental health professionals to do likewise. My interest, knowledge, training, and experience have always been in assisting others to bring out the best in each other and to make life increasingly wonderful for each other. I would love to do so with you.

My Role as a Therapist

As a counselor my role is to assist my clients in bringing out the best in themselves and others. My clinic seeks to create a warm, friendly, positive environment that may make it easier for us to open up honestly and deeply about our inner thoughts and feelings as well as out behaviors. We then work together to collaboratively assess what has happened and how to accomplish your personal and relationship goals. Numerous psychological approaches and techniques may then be used to assist you in understanding, enhancing, and experiencing your ability to bring out the best in yourself and others. I would love to assist you in doing so.