Guy Sartee, LMFT, LIMFT

Guy Sartee is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of clinical experience practicing in both California and Ohio. He holds LMFT and LIMFT credentials, licenses for marriage and family therapists, and brings extensive experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through relationship challenges and major life transitions.

His work centers on improving communication, helping clients explore life purpose, and guiding them through difficult emotions such as guilt, shame, and attachment wounds. Over more than three decades he has supported people facing grief and loss, midlife transitions, family conflicts, and the practical and emotional issues that accompany aging.

Guy draws on a compassionate, tailored approach that adapts to the needs of each person or family. He has worked with veterans and those experiencing domestic challenges, and he often addresses blended family dynamics, infidelity, family-of-origin concerns, and other complex relational patterns. He offers practical strategies alongside reflective work to help clients build stronger, more authentic connections with themselves and others.

Whether the focus is repairing a relationship, grieving a loss, or finding renewed direction in life, Guy provides steady, experienced guidance aimed at meaningful progress and clearer next steps.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options

Guy combines Client-Centered Therapy, the Gottman Method, and Existential Therapy to address relationship and life challenges. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship and helps people explore their feelings and goals at their own pace - it is useful for improving self-esteem and navigating personal change. The Gottman Method is a research-informed approach that emphasizes communication skills, conflict management, and rebuilding trust, making it especially helpful for couples working through communication problems, infidelity, or recurring conflict. Existential Therapy explores questions of meaning, choice, and responsibility, supporting clients who are facing life purpose concerns, midlife transitions, or feelings of emptiness.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Guy works collaboratively with clients and licensed professionals to identify which methods best match a person or couple's goals, preferences, and practical needs, adjusting the plan over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and access consistent support from licensed professionals and therapists regardless of location within the therapist's service area.