LGBTQ+ Individual & Couples Therapy Across Florida | Telehealth

Evidence-based therapy informed by lived LGBTQ+ experience. I work with adults and couples seeking healthier connection, emotional regulation, and greater clarity.

Serving clients across Florida — including Tampa Bay, Orlando, and Miami — through individual therapy and Gottman-informed couples work via secure telehealth.

Community-led, clinically grounded care for LGBTQ+ Floridians.

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Ways I Can Support You

Individual Therapy

Support for adults navigating anxiety, identity stress, and emotional overwhelm.

Reduce overwhelm, depression, and emotional reactivity
Build self-trust, confidence, and internal stability
Develop practical tools for stress, mood, and daily functioning
Work through life transitions, burnout, or relationship stress.

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Relationship Therapy

Support for couples seeking clearer communication and stronger connection.

Identify and interrupt repeating conflict patterns
Improve communication, emotional safety, and trust
Rebuild intimacy after distance, tension, or rupture
Navigate transitions like commitment, separation, or repair

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Hi, I’m Grayson

Founder of Saltwater Souls Counseling — one of the few private practices in Florida devoted exclusively to LGBTQ+ mental health.

I specialize in working with LGBTQ+ individuals and couples in our community who want clarity, steadier emotional footing, and stronger connection. CIIS-trained, OutCare-certified, and active in statewide affirming networks, I provide trauma-informed care grounded in lived community experience.

My approach blends clinical structure with the focus and perseverance shaped during my years as a Division I athlete. Sessions are thoughtful, collaborative, and goal-oriented — practical enough to create real movement, and deep enough to address the patterns underneath.

Based in St. Petersburg, I offer secure telehealth therapy to LGBTQ+ adults and couples across Florida. Expect professional, affirming care with direct feedback, collaborative problem-solving, and the occasional well-timed humor.

Ready to work with a Florida-based therapist who understands your world and knows how to help you move forward?

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My Approach

At Saltwater Souls Counseling, I merge mental-health science with time-tested insight to offer therapy that’s personalized, practical, and effective — adapting to your goals, history, and real-life context rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all approach.

In couples therapy, I draw primarily from Gottman-informed and attachment-based frameworks to help partners interrupt repeating conflict patterns, improve communication, and rebuild trust and intimacy — whether your relationship is monogamous, open, or poly.

Individual therapy focuses on reducing anxiety, strengthening emotional regulation, and working through identity-related stress using structured, insight-oriented, and mindfulness-informed approaches.

We’ll keep what’s already working, thoughtfully shift what isn’t, and identify clear next steps that support meaningful, lasting change.

Proven Results & Safe Care for Florida’s LGBTQ+ Community

Evidence you can trust

Emotionally Focused Therapy moves 70 – 75 % of distressed couples into recovery, and about 90 % report significant relationship improvement.
Gottman-based interventions raise intimacy and lower persistent conflict in up to 75 % of participating partners.
CBT tailored for LGBTQ+ stress significantly cuts depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms compared with non-affirming care.