Christian Graves, LPC-A

Support for individuals navigating trauma, grief, loss, and the lasting emotional or relational impact of difficult experiences. Treatment is individualized and may focus on processing experiences, understanding patterns that developed in response to them, strengthening emotional regulation, and reducing the extent to which past experiences continue to interfere with relationships, self-perception, or daily functioning.

Comprehensive autism assessment and therapy beginning in early childhood and extending through adolescence and adulthood, including individuals whose autism may have been overlooked or masked earlier in life. Therapeutic and family support is strongly included to address emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, social communication, adaptive functioning, independence, relationships, and understanding one's neurodivergent identity. I also provide sessions in the community for greater skill generalization and exposure to day to day life.

Assessment and treatment of ADHD in children, adolescents, and adults, with attention to executive functioning, organization, working memory, task initiation, motivation, impulsivity, emotional regulation, time management, academic functioning, and the ways ADHD may present differently across developmental stages. A significant emphasis is placed on helping individuals and families understand both strengths and areas of vulnerability.

Specialized treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder, intrusive thoughts, checking, reassurance seeking, rumination, avoidance, perfectionism, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic, health-related anxiety, and difficulty tolerating uncertainty. Treatment incorporates CBT, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), ACT, and behavioral approaches.

Anxiety, depression, behavioral concerns, school avoidance, identity development, self-esteem, relationships, emotional regulation, independence, college transitions, and the developmental challenges associated with adolescence and emerging adulthood.

Individualized support for parents navigating behavioral concerns, emotional dysregulation, neurodivergence, school difficulties, family conflict, limit-setting, communication, and developmentally appropriate expectations.

Assessment and intervention related to learning disorders, giftedness, executive functioning, academic performance, school anxiety or avoidance, behavioral concerns, and educational accommodations. Collaboration with parents, educators, and treatment professionals helps translate clinical findings into practical recommendations for the school environment.

Support for individuals navigating significant life changes, relationship difficulties, identity development, career or academic stress, parenting, emerging adulthood, changing family roles, and other periods of adjustment. Treatment emphasizes developing insight, strengthening coping skills, improving relationships, and moving toward meaningful and sustainable personal growth.

Treatment for anxiety, chronic stress, overwhelm, difficulty managing emotions, perfectionism, overthinking, and patterns of emotional reactivity or avoidance. Therapy focuses on understanding the connection between thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and physiological responses while building practical skills for regulation, flexibility, coping, and managing everyday stressors.

Treatment addressing low self-esteem, self-criticism, insecurity, people-pleasing, perfectionism, difficulty trusting oneself, and challenges related to identity or self-worth. Therapy emphasizes developing a more balanced understanding of oneself, increasing confidence, strengthening personal values, and making choices that are less driven by fear, comparison, or the expectations of others.

Support for individuals experiencing conflict, communication difficulties, disconnection, boundary concerns, relationship anxiety, recurring interpersonal patterns, or difficulty navigating expectations within romantic, family, friendship, and other important relationships. Treatment focuses on increasing insight into relational patterns while strengthening communication, boundaries, emotional regulation, and healthier ways of connecting with others.

Treatment informed by an understanding that individual concerns often occur within broader family and relational systems. Work may address communication patterns, changing family roles, parent-child relationships, sibling or extended-family dynamics, boundaries, conflict, intergenerational patterns, and the ways family experiences continue to influence emotional functioning and relationships across the lifespan.

Individualized evaluations addressing autism, ADHD, learning disorders, giftedness, cognitive functioning, academic concerns, emotional and behavioral functioning, and complex diagnostic questions. Assessment is designed not only to establish diagnostic clarity, but to provide useful recommendations for home, school, treatment, and daily functioning.

Support surrounding relationships, family changes, parenting, grief, career stress, college, emerging adulthood, and other periods of significant adjustment.