About Greg

Therapy begins with relationship

I’ve spent much of my life sitting with people during moments when life has become difficult, confusing, or simply no longer feels the way they want it to feel.

What I’ve learned over the years is that people rarely need someone to tell them who they should become. More often, they need a place where they can slow down, feel understood, become curious about what is happening, and begin to see themselves and their relationships more clearly.

That’s the kind of space I try to create in therapy.

My Approach

I don't believe therapy is about fixing what's wrong with you. I see it as a collaborative conversation grounded in curiosity, compassion, honesty, and respect.

Sometimes our work involves learning practical ways to navigate anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, substance use, or a difficult transition. At other times, we may become curious about patterns that have been operating quietly for years — the ways you've learned to protect yourself, relate to others, or make sense of what happens around you.

When I work with couples and families, much of my attention turns toward what is happening between people. Rather than beginning with who is right or wrong, I'm interested in the patterns you've created together and what those patterns may be trying to tell us.

Whatever brings you to therapy, we'll begin with where you are.

Experience and Background

My work draws from years of experience in psychotherapy, substance use treatment, couples and family work, and personal growth. Before becoming a psychotherapist, I worked extensively in the substance use treatment field, both inpatient and outpatient, experiences that continue to inform the way I understand change, protection, relationships, and recovery.

Today, I work with individuals, couples, and families through telehealth in Arizona and Washington. My work has continued to evolve over the years, but one thing has remained constant: my belief in our capacity to become more aware of ourselves, more intentional in our choices, and more connected to the people who matter to us.

Greg Kiper, LMHC, LPC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor — Washington
Licensed Professional Counselor — Arizona

A Little More About Me

My path to becoming a therapist wasn't a straight one. I've lived enough life to know that change rarely happens in a straight line either.

Before becoming a psychotherapist, I spent years working in the substance use treatment field, where I had the privilege of being with people at some of the most difficult and consequential moments of their lives. That work taught me a great deal about addiction and recovery, but it also taught me about fear, protection, relationships, courage, and our remarkable capacity to change.

Over the years, my work naturally expanded into psychotherapy, couples and family work, and a much broader curiosity about what makes us who we are. I'm still curious. In fact, I think curiosity has become more important to me with time. I'm less interested in having all the answers than I am in asking the questions that help us see something we couldn't see before.

My life outside the therapy room has shaped me just as much as my professional experience. I'm a husband, a father and grandfather, a writer, and someone who continues to explore his own life and relationships. I live in Sedona, Arizona, where the landscape has a way of reminding me regularly that there is always something larger than whatever may be going on inside my head.

At this point in my life and career, I don't feel a need to be the expert in the room. I bring decades of experience, training, and hopefully some wisdom, but you bring something equally important: your own experience of being you. Somewhere in the conversation between those two things, we begin to discover what might be possible.

And maybe that's the simplest way to describe how I approach this work.

We begin with a conversation and see what we discover together.