- Emotionally-Focused Therapy
- CBT techniques
- EMDR and interviewing
About Aurilia
Aurilia Gray-Grimes is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with seven years of clinical practice. She also brings more than 25 years of service in faith-based community work supporting single mothers, young adults, and people facing relationship challenges. Aurilia helps people manage stress and anxiety, process grief, and develop anger management skills and self-esteem.
She uses clear, practical tools in sessions and treats clients as active partners in the work. Conversations focus on what is happening now and on small steps that can be practiced between meetings. Sessions move at a pace the client is comfortable with.
Aurilia lists Emotionally-Focused Therapy among her approaches and also uses client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR, and motivational interviewing. She draws on these ways of working to help people name emotions, notice interaction patterns, and try new behaviors.
Her additional focus areas include communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, questions of life purpose, self-love, and women’s issues. These topics come up alongside depression, relationship strain, and low self-esteem.
Work with Aurilia is described around practical skills and emotional processing. She offers tools to help people leave therapy with clearer strategies for daily life. Prospective clients in Florida should confirm current session options before booking.
How her approaches translate to online work
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name strong emotions and how those emotions affect interactions. It is often used when relationship patterns or attachment-related feelings are hard to name. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client's experience and promotes self-directed change through attentive listening and reflection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical strategies for changing unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Aurilia will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a client's needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying approaches, checking in about what's helping, and adjusting when needed.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow a shorter check-in when time is limited, or avoid travel when needed. Many people find that meeting remotely helps them keep therapy consistent with work, family, and other responsibilities while still doing substantive clinical work with a licensed professional.
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Experience
7+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship concerns. Additional focus areas include communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, isolation or loneliness, life purpose, self-love, and women's issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses practical tools and makes clients active partners in the work. Sessions emphasize naming emotions, learning skills, and trying new behaviors between meetings.
What is her experience background?
She has seven years as an LMHC and more than 25 years of experience in faith-based community service supporting single mothers, young adults, and people navigating relationship concerns.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is an LMHC licensed in Florida and practices with that credential in the state.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
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