LGBTQ+ Individual & Couples Therapy Across Florida | Telehealth

Evidence-based therapy informed by lived LGBTQ+ experience. I work with adults and couples seeking stronger connection, steadier emotions, and real movement forward.

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

Care that is affirming, purposeful, and built to last.

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Ways I Can Support You

Individual Therapy

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

Reduce anxiety, depression, and emotional reactivity
Build self-trust, confidence, and stronger boundaries
Develop practical tools for stress, mood, and daily functioning
Identify and shift recurring relational patterns

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Relationship Therapy

Support for couples seeking clearer communication, stronger connection, and relief from repeating conflict.

Interrupt reactive cycles and reduce recurring arguments
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

I’m the 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+ adults and couples navigating anxiety, relationship conflict, burnout, trauma, identity stress, and major life transitions. My work is trauma-informed, affirming, and grounded in lived community experience.

Before becoming a therapist, I competed as a Division I athlete. That discipline still shapes how I show up — steady, focused, and committed to meaningful progress. I bring that same intentionality into the therapy room, balancing depth with forward movement and practical tools.

I’m based in St. Petersburg and provide secure telehealth therapy throughout Florida. Expect professional, thoughtful care with direct feedback, collaborative problem-solving, and well-timed humor when it helps lighten the work.

Ready to work with a Florida-based therapist who understands your world?

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My Approach

At Saltwater Souls Counseling, I integrate mental-health science with depth-oriented insight to offer therapy that’s personalized, grounded, and responsive to your real life. Rather than forcing a rigid model, our work adapts to your goals, history, relationships, and the context you’re living in right now.

In couples therapy, I draw from Gottman-informed and attachment-based perspectives to interrupt repeating conflict cycles, improve communication, and rebuild trust. We focus on the emotional patterns underneath arguments while strengthening practical tools that stabilize connection.

Individual therapy bridges depth and practicality. Alongside concrete tools for anxiety, emotional regulation, and daily stress, we examine the deeper patterns shaped by early experiences and attachment history. Insight creates understanding; practical skills create change. Together, they allow growth that lasts.

We’ll strengthen what’s already working, shift what isn’t, and identify clear next steps that create steady, sustainable progress.

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

Evidence you can trust

Research on attachment-focused couples therapy shows that 70–75% of distressed couples move into recovery, with the vast majority reporting significant improvement. Our work integrates attachment science with practical communication tools to create lasting change
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.
We don’t just treat symptoms. We explore the attachment history, relational templates, and protective strategies that shape anxiety, conflict, and shutdown. Insight allows us to target the root — not just the reaction.