Grady Yarbrough, Jr
Licensed Professional Counselor
Compassionate - Competent - Professional
Personal and Professional Development
Counseling | Psychotherapy | Coaching
For over 40 years as a personal and professional coach and licensed professional counselor, Grady helped clients develop a vision for success, set goals, and overcome a myriad of personal and professional challenges. Whether your current pain is a crisis or a chronic disruption, Grady is committed to providing competent, compassionate, and professional intervention.
With a rich understanding of human behavior, and years of experience, Grady will help you assess your personality, your strengths, your motivations, your weaknesses and blind spots. You will learn how others perceive you and why. This understanding provides a foundation for your growth.
About Grady Yarbrough, Jr
Licensed Professional Counselor
Compassionate
Central to the art of the healer, Grady’s compassion allows a hurting person to describe and explore the sources of pain. Genuinely concerned and naturally empathetic, Grady helps his clients identify the emotions, historical events, and negative patterns that are essential to crisis or disruption. With guidance, individuals are encouraged to tackle what they previously would not attempt. One client characterized Grady as “a true healer of the wounded heart, an encourager, and one who brings correction without judgment.”
Competent
Originally trained in psychopathology, Grady has the knowledge to identify conditions by their symptoms and applies evidence-based remedies. He has learned, however, that the absence of psychopathology is not wellness: only the presence of life brings life. Over decades of specialized training, Grady has refined his methods that incorporate the individual’s personality, giftedness, and history. He helps to create an understanding of the current challenge and to re-launch the individual to great productivity, wholeness, creativity, and passion. Grady coaches and motivates individuals to develop confidence and a vision for the future. He guides clients to redefine their roles and to capitalize on their unique abilities.
Professional
Grady works with clients from all walks of life and from all over the country — from a vast array of professionals and entrepreneurs, students and stay-at-home parents. A consummate professional Grady respects each individual’s faith. Grady is a Christ-follower. Grady has found exploration of belief constructs to aid in the healing process. This may include the deconstruction of ideas, such as legalism or other religious distortions. If a client so chooses, Grady will guide them to a greater understanding of themselves in light of their relationship with God.
Personal Note
I have been married to Diane for over 55 years. We live in the Texas Hill Country and have four adult children (two sons and two daughters) thirteen grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. We are active members of our faith community. I am a big fan of tools, machinery, woodworking, and contruction.I love all things beautiful and continue my lifelong pursuit of art.
Education and Credentials
Stephen F. Austin University, B.S.,1968
Dallas Theological Seminary, Th.M.,1975
U.S. Navy, Commissioned Officer, Inactive Reserve
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Florida
Supervisor of LPC Interns
Certificate in Mediation Skills
Certified in CBT
EMDR Level II – 1998
Enneagram Competent
DiSC Profile Competent
TX License #13072 | LA License #8391 | PA License #PC010147 | FL License #TPMC1822
Appointments
I have started using SimplePractice for practice management.
Your portal will provide quick access to your appointment and billing histories. New clients: Please download and fill out the Client Information Form and scan and email to me along with pictures of yourself/family. Then make a 15-minute initial appointment (I prefer video) using the SCHEDULE WITH GRADY button.
Note: Your appointment will be successfully logged into the system when you receive a confirmation email. If you have difficulties logging in or don’t receive an email confirming the appointment please get in touch with me by phone or click here to fill out the contact form.
When Changing Appointments: You will receive an email cancelation for the appointment you are changing. Then you will receive a confirmation email for the new time.
The Week
An intensive which concentrates and compresses client focus into four days with two 90-minute sessions each day. Many have reported “The Week” was an effective use of their time. Clients from all parts of the United States and several foreign countries have used “The Week” as their treatment option of choice.
Electronic sessions include: phone, FaceTime, Zoom or Video through SimplePractice.
Together we can determine the best way to set your appointments to help you reach your goals. Assigned writings, readings, reflections. and even discussions with others augment the effectiveness of sessions.
Meet My Colleagues
Lauren Norris, LPC
Lauren is a Licensed Professional Counselor and has been in practice since 2015. She graduated in 2010 from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of the Arts in Psychology, then in 2014 with a Masters of the Arts in Counseling from Colorado Christian University. She was subsequently trained in the use of EMDR for the treatment of trauma.
Emily Williams, LPC
Emily graduated with both a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Liberty University. She also has an Associate in Arts in Biblical Studies from the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago with an emphasis on Global Missions and is a Certified Life Coach
Stephanie Porter, LMFT
Stephanie is a graduate of Liberty University with a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy. She is currently a practicing Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the states of Texas, Indiana, and New Mexico utilizing virtual platforms to connect and counsel. In addition, Stephanie is a speaker and self-published author.
For Your Consideration
