About Adalheidur
Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Kansas. She greets clients with a straightforward, supportive approach and aims to help people manage anxiety, stress, and everyday pressures. Ally uses a collaborative style that centers the client's goals and strengths.
Ally draws on five years of clinical experience as a therapist and a longer social work background. She focuses on conversations that help people notice patterns, test small changes, and build practical skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are geared toward real-life problems like worry, low mood, relationship strain, grief, and navigating care responsibilities. Her work combines client-centered listening with structured tools. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps break down troubling thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Ally also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support pacing and commitment to change. These tools help people slow down, identify what matters, and move toward achievable steps.
She pays attention to family history, attachment patterns, and how past stress shapes current life. Sessions are offered in English and Icelandic and can cover a wide range of concerns including trauma, ADHD, body image, and intimacy-related issues. Her aim is to partner with people who want practical ways to cope, steady their emotions, and rebuild confidence.
How Ally blends proven approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on empathetic listening and building a trusting partnership. This approach helps people feel heard and clarifies their own goals before choosing specific tools. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses practical exercises to reduce worry and low mood, which can be helpful for anxiety and depression.Ally sees finding the right approach as a team effort. She will work with clients to test techniques, notice what helps, and adjust the plan over time. The goal is to match methods to a person's needs, pace, and preferences rather than assume one path fits everyone.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversations and practicing new skills, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit quick check-ins or shorter, focused support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same clinical approaches as in-person work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English, Icelandic
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