Garrick D. Conner, LPC-S, LMFT-S, CSAT, CMAT
About Garrick
Therapy doesn’t have to feel clinical to be meaningful.
I’m Garrick D. Conner, a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, and Certified Multiple Addictions Therapist. For more than 25 years, I’ve had the privilege of walking alongside people through some of the most difficult, complicated, and meaningful seasons of their lives.
But credentials only tell you so much.
If you’re considering therapy, you probably want to know what it will actually be like to sit across from me.
My style is warm, straightforward, practical, and conversational. I take the work seriously, but I don’t believe every moment of therapy has to feel heavy. There is room for honesty, emotion, curiosity, and—when appropriate—humor. I want my clients to feel comfortable enough to be real, while also knowing that I won’t simply nod along or offer clichés. Good therapy should be compassionate, but it should also help us tell the truth.
You don’t have to have everything figured out before you come in.
Many of the people I work with have spent years being the dependable one—the person others count on, the one who keeps going, solves problems, takes care of responsibilities, and rarely lets anyone see what is happening underneath.
Eventually, that gets exhausting.
Anxiety. Loneliness. Grief. Relationship struggles. Regret. Compulsive behaviors. Questions about faith. Major life changes. Sometimes there isn’t one dramatic crisis at all. You simply realize that the way you’ve been living isn’t working anymore.
Therapy gives us a place to slow things down, understand what’s happening beneath the surface, and begin figuring out what needs to change.
I work primarily with adults dealing with concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief and loss, major life transitions, relationship difficulties, men’s issues, pornography and problematic sexual behavior, sexual addiction, infidelity, loneliness, emotional disconnection, and concerns involving faith and spirituality.
I have a particular interest in working with men who have become very good at functioning while becoming increasingly disconnected from themselves and the people they love.
My approach
I don’t believe people fit neatly into formulas, so therapy with me is not one-size-fits-all.
My work draws from several evidence-informed approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Emotionally Focused Therapy, attachment-based approaches, Internal Family Systems concepts, family systems work, and trauma-informed care. We’ll use what’s useful and appropriate for you rather than trying to make you fit a particular therapeutic model.
And you get a voice in the process.
I see my role less as an evaluator or referee and more as a trusted guide, facilitator, and sometimes coach. We will pay attention to what has shaped you, what keeps you stuck, what is already working, and what meaningful change might actually look like in your everyday life.
I’ll listen carefully. I’ll ask questions. I’ll help you notice patterns. And when needed, I’ll challenge you—with respect and without judgment.
Faith can be part of the conversation—without being forced into it.
For clients who want it, Christian faith and spirituality can be thoughtfully integrated into therapy.
My own background gives me a deep appreciation for the ways faith can provide meaning, hope, community, and resilience. I also understand that spiritual experiences can be complicated. For some people, church relationships, religious expectations, disappointment, shame, or painful experiences with spiritual leaders become part of the story that needs attention.
You don’t have to check your faith at the door to receive sound clinical care. At the same time, you’ll never be pressured to discuss spirituality or approach therapy from a religious perspective. That decision belongs to you.
Experience matters. So does being human.
I earned my graduate training in marriage and family counseling and later completed a Doctor of Educational Ministry degree. I have been licensed as a professional counselor and marriage and family therapist since 2000 and have pursued additional specialized training in areas including sexual addiction and multiple addictions.
Over the years, I’ve learned that people rarely need another person pretending to have all the answers.
They need someone who will pay attention.
Someone who can tolerate hard conversations.
Someone who can help them make sense of what feels confusing.
Someone who can offer both compassion and perspective.
And sometimes, someone who can help them laugh for a minute in the middle of something that has felt unbearably serious.
That is the kind of therapist I work hard to be.
You’re allowed to want things to be different.
You don’t have to wait until your life is falling apart to come to therapy.
Maybe something clearly needs to change. Maybe you’re trying to rebuild trust, break a destructive pattern, navigate a loss, or find your footing after a major transition. Or maybe life looks fine from the outside and you simply know that something inside doesn’t feel right.
Either way, we can start there.
My goal is not to turn you into someone else. It is to help you understand yourself more clearly, relate to the people in your life more honestly, and move toward a life marked by greater connection, peace, purpose, and self-respect.
If that sounds like the kind of work you’re ready to do, I’d be glad to talk with you.
Feel free to email me.
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