Dr. Gaynor serves individuals who are facing challenges to their well-being due to stress, depression, anxiety, adjustment issues and life transitions, and dissatisfaction with health, wellness, and relationships.

The foundation for productive therapy is developing a strong relationship, a shared vision of what success looks like, and collaboratively determining the strategies most likely to produce success. The approach taken typically comes from the wide range of evidence-based practices in which Dr. Gaynor has expertise, specifically those emerging from the cognitive-behavioral tradition and including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), exposure therapies, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). He uses a combination of change-oriented and acceptance-based strategies that fit the unique needs of each client.

Dr. Gaynor received his BA from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He completed his clinical internship and an NIMH post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. In 2001, he accepted a faculty position in the Psychology Department at Western Michigan University, where he is currently a tenured Professor of Psychology. He teaches graduate courses in psychopathology and treatment, provides clinical supervision to therapists in training, and conducts intervention-oriented research.