Specialties
Chuck Gray, Ph.D. specializes in Marriage Counseling, Couples' Counseling, Premarital Counseling, Dating Counseling, Singles' Counseling and other Adult Relationship Counseling while also providing counseling in the following areas: Communication, Affairs, Trust, Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Dysfunction, Codependency, Self-Esteem, Social Fears, Phobias, Panic Attacks, Alcohol Abuse, Substance 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. Please call 713-774-2122 for more information.
Marriage Counseling
If you see Dr. Chuck Gray as your marriage counselor, he will do everything possible to make your experience positive, constructive, and congenial. His approach is collaborative, practical, and individualized. He will work with you to establish agreed upon goals for your marriage and for your counseling. In the marriage counseling you and your spouse will progressively learn to discuss any and all issues as collaborative allies seeking to fulfill your common goals. Making wise, well-educated, and insightful decisions will be emphasized as you enhance your abilities to manage your feelings constructively. In the marriage counseling, you will be guided to assess how and why each of you may be triggered to get off course and how you might best support each other in staying on course and getting back on course after slips. A marriage counseling focus will be on progressively learning to bring out the best in each other by bringing out the best in yourselves. Handouts, self-assessments, relationships-building processes, and recommended readings will be offered. In the marriage counseling, you will be gently guided to enjoy making life increasingly wonderful for each other.
Chuck Gray, Ph.D. strives to provide the warm compassionate environment he believes is helpful in allowing us to feel safe disclosing and understanding our innermost thoughts and feelings. A wide variety of helpful psychological techniques may then be used to quickly assess in a friendly way the often hidden underlying origins of our situations. Numerous constructive psychological techniques may then be used to help us develop specific life enhancement plans and gently guide us through the process of fulfilling our goals.
Biographical Information
Dr. Chuck Gray has been licensed by the State of Texas as a psychologist since 1987.
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.
Dr. Chuck Gray is a professional member of the Texas and Harris County Mental Health Associations as well as the American Psychological and Texas Psychological Associations. He also served for seven years as an executive committee member for the Houston Psychological Association, where he won a President's Award in 2003.
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. They have two delightful daughters: Cheryl, who is in graduate school at the University of South Florida, and Val, who is in college at Trinity University in San Antonio.
Rates
Dr. Chuck Gray's rate is $190 per 55 minute session. He offers 55 minutes of an initial 110 minute consultation free to the first member of each family. Dr. Gray is eligible for out-of-network insurance reimbursement from all insurance companies that offer such coverage. Coverage varies greatly. To determine your specific insurance benefits, please call our friendly staff at (713) 774-2122.
Additional Information
Dr. Gray is located at 8303 Southwest Freeway (at South Gessner), Suite 330, Houston, Texas 77074-1601. For further information, please call 713-774-2122 or visit marriagecounselingpsychologistshouston.com. You may also send an Email to [email protected] He would love to help you help yourself.
