I genuinely love being a mental health therapist and find deep meaning in helping others grow and heal. I am passionate about ending the stigma surrounding mental health and normalizing therapy. My approach is nonjudgmental, compassionate, and collaborative. I work to gently challenge unhelpful thought patterns while honoring each person’s unique complexity and strengths. I incorporate empathy and appropriate humor to foster connection, insight, and lasting change. A U.S. Army veteran, I have extensive experience working with individuals and couples navigating stress, trauma, and life transitions. I hold an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (UNT–Denton), and a PhD in Psychology (SMU–Dallas). I am a Licensed Professional Counselor–Supervisor (LPC-S) and Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC). I specialize in anger management, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, addiction recovery, emotional suppression, and sexual compulsivity. I also enjoy helping couples strengthen emotional connection, communication, trust, conflict resolution, and intimacy.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
It takes a lot of strength to make that first therapy appointment. To admit you may need some help or some challenges to work through — takes a lot of self-awareness and inner strength! Despite some misconceptions, my job isn’t to solve your problems for you. My main goal for our first session is to help you learn how to better help yourself. I can’t tell you what to do, change your relationship with others, or tell the people who’ve hurt you just how wrong they were. But I can help you recognize your weaknesses and capitalize on your strengths! During your first counseling session, you can expect to • Discuss your challenges and WHY you are seeking counseling. • Discuss your symptoms. • Be open and honest. • Opportunity to ask questions. • Have your confidentiality respected. • Be an active part of the process. • Be asked simple questions about your history, including your childhood, education, relationships, your current living situation, and your career. • Be asked what you expect to gain from therapy. • Be asked what your strengths and weaknesses are. We may dive deep into your interpersonal relationships, not examine the faults of others, and help you understand your role in making yourself a better person. My nonjudgmental approach is to confront irrational thought patterns and continuously strive to recognize the unique complexity and potential of each person. Moreover, I seek to provide an environment of compassion, empathy, and understanding to help each individual build on their strengths and attain personal growth.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
Gregg’s greatest strength lies in the depth of his education and clinical experience. His goal is to create a supportive, compassionate, and encouraging environment where clients feel understood and empowered to pursue meaningful growth and change. He works collaboratively with individuals and couples to effectively address concerns that contribute to stress and dysfunction. Using a nonjudgmental approach, Gregg helps clients identify and challenge irrational thought patterns while honoring each person’s unique complexity, strengths, and potential. He is committed to fostering an atmosphere of empathy, understanding, and respect that allows individuals to gain insight, build resilience, and maximize their personal and relational well-being.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
Gregg has a passion for helping clients manage anger, overcome traumatic experiences, improve communication and insight, and increase self-awareness. Gregg especially enjoys working with clients experiencing stressful and chaotic challenges including, but not limited to, sexual compulsivity, infidelity, parenthood, anger management, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and recovery addiction. Gregg also works with couples seeking to enhance their relationship in areas such as emotional connection, communication, trust, conflict, and sexual intimacy.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapeutic treatment that helps people identify and change destructive or disturbing thought patterns that negatively influence their behavior and emotions. It is an evidence-based approach used to treat various mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, ADHD, phobias, personality disorders, and sexual compulsive disorders (including porn addiction). This therapy can help you identify and replace negative or damaging behaviors learned un your past. Moreover, CBT aims to help you identify and explore the ways your emotions and thoughts can affect your actions. Once you notice these patterns, you can begin learning how to change your behaviors and develop new coping strategies (In other words, the way you think and feel about something can affect what you do). CBT involves the use of many varied techniques. I will work with you to find the ones that work best for you. Typical treatment often involves the following: • recognizing how inaccurate thinking can worsen problems • learning new problem-solving skills • gaining confidence and a better understanding and appreciation of your self-worth • learning how to face fears and challenges • using role play and calming techniques when faced with potentially challenging situations The goal of these techniques is to replace unhelpful or self-defeating thoughts with more encouraging and realistic ones. Homework is an important part of CBT. Just as school assignments helped you practice and develop the skills you learned in class; therapy assignments can help you become more familiar with the skills you’re developing.
Family Therapy
Individual therapy is a fantastic resource for improving mental health. It provides a safe space to explore your thoughts and feelings, develop coping mechanisms, and gain valuable insights. But sometimes, individual therapy alone might not be enough. Family therapy includes family members in the therapy sessions to improve communication and interaction, understanding, and offer support in coping with your mental health challenges. Our family affects who we are and who we become, for better and for worse. We learn our vocabulary, our habits, our customs and rituals, and how to view and observe the world around us. We also learn how to love and how to interact with others from these first important relationships. Family therapy views individuals’ problems in the context of the larger unit: the family Family therapy techniques may include reframing, paradoxical interventions, or therapeutic exercises from various other types of therapy models. The techniques I like to employ will depend on the specific problems the client or clients present with. In a nutshell, the goal of family therapy is to work together to heal any mental, emotional, or psychological problems tearing your family apart. To guide a family towards a healthy life, I aim to aid the client(s) in improving communication, solving family problems, understanding and handling family situations, and creating a better functioning home environment.
Couples Counseling
Couples counseling helps partners navigate relationship challenges, improve communication, and deepen affection, empathy, and connection. Sessions are tailored to address the specific interpersonal issues creating stress or disconnection within the relationship. In couples counseling, the relationship itself is the client—not the two individuals separately. I have advanced training in Marriage and Family counseling and hold a PhD in Psychology from SMU–Dallas. I am also Gottman Method–trained, which allows me to help couples build stronger foundations through evidence-based interventions that enhance trust, communication, and emotional intimacy. I work with couples navigating challenges such as infidelity, sexual performance concerns, pornography addiction, and ongoing conflict. I especially enjoy helping couples deepen emotional connection, improve communication, rebuild trust, and strengthen both conflict resolution and sexual intimacy. My approach is grounded in compassion, empathy, and—when appropriate—lighthearted humor to foster growth, safety, and meaningful connection.
Gottman method
I love being a mental health therapist and am especially passionate about couples counseling using the Gottman Method. This evidence-based approach helps couples build stronger connections by improving communication, managing conflict, and maintaining fondness and admiration for each other. I work with couples facing challenges such as chronic conflict, infidelity, emotional distance, or difficulties around parenting, money, or sex. In sessions, I focus on patterns of interaction and help partners develop practical skills to strengthen their relationship. I also provide Gottman book recommendations and exercises to support growth outside of therapy, so positive change continues beyond our time together.
6 ratings with written reviews
June 11, 2025
He gave us great advice and things we can do to help our situation. He was very authentic and opened our eyes to things we were doing and not doing.
June 9, 2025
Gregg is quick minded and direct. I like how he gets to the point and helps my husband and I both feel validated. He has a deep understanding for the reasons why we do the things we do. I appreciate his ability to get to the root cause of our issues and concerns, before jumping to any conclusions. Overall, Gregg is helping us work through years of challenges and has helped give us hope for the future.
April 30, 2025
I had a truly great experience with Dr. Gregg Malone. From the very first session, he was warm, welcoming, and made it easy to feel comfortable opening up. He has a wonderful sense of humor that brought a lightness to some heavy conversations, and it really helped me feel more at ease. I felt genuinely heard and understood, and he was able to connect with me in a way that felt very natural and authentic. I’m grateful for his support and time.