Dr. Grant Mundell

The clients I serve are teens and adults 13-65 who come for help addressing various needs and goals, ranging from: anxiety, depression, suicidal thinking, behavioral problems, sibling rivalry, adjusting to changes in the family composition, parental separation and divorce , LGBTQI+ concerns, gender identity issues, trauma, and more. Clients and families seek relief, increased family harmony, improved school performance and behavior, and a return to healthy behavior, thinking, and feeling through the acquisition and development of strategies and tools tailored to meet individual needs.

I have 11 years of experience as a high school teacher, and more than 15 years of combined experience working at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Devereux Residential Treatment Center for Adolescent Girls, a private inpatient psychiatric hospital for teens and children, as well as extensive experience in outpatient medical clinics.

In my careers as teacher and now psychotherapist I have worked with more than 3000 children and teens, and their families, in many different settings in Canada, New York City, Philadelphiaia, and Seattle. I understand their experiences, but see each as an individual with unique strengths and needs. I see each as a person-first, capable of change, and inherent worthy of support.

I use a strengths-based, person-first approach that assumes people are doing the best they can, and seeks to scaffold upon strengths they already have to make improvements in areas of their life that are meaningful to them. I operate from a Humanistic framework but deploy strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, as well as psychodynamic and depth-psychology.

The first session aims to set you at ease, then to collect some basic background on your life and your current situation. It is an opportunity for you to ask questions of me, too - I strongly believe in reciprocal conversation. You can expect unconditional positive regard, respect for you as an individual, and a genuine interest in wanting to know how I can help