About Gabriel
Gabriel "Gabe" Seldess is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and relationship struggles. He focuses on small, practical steps that make daily life easier. Gabe listens first, then helps people build clear goals and a plan to reach them.
Gabe begins by learning about current life circumstances and what matters most to each person. He mixes cognitive tools and family-focused ideas to look at how past experiences shape beliefs and behavior.
Background and approach
Sessions often include short exercises and simple skills to try between meetings. Mindfulness and behavioral strategies are used to help with mood and decision making. Gabe also teaches communication skills so people can speak up and advocate for themselves.
He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas to reduce worry and increase meaningful action. With 20 years of experience, Gabe has worked with many common life challenges. He has helped people facing grief, career transitions, addiction concerns, and questions about identity and intimacy.
His approach is practical and goal-oriented while staying attentive to each person’s values. Gabe practices in Illinois as an LMFT - licensed marriage and family therapist. He provides sessions in English and uses several online formats.
New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire to find a good fit and then schedule sessions that match their availability.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online ACT sessions focus on small experiments and exercises that can be practiced between meetings to reduce anxiety and increase meaningful activity.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote CBT sessions Gabe uses short worksheets and behavioral tasks to test unhelpful thoughts and build new habits for managing stress and mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gabe will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily life to decide which techniques to emphasize. The plan can change as progress is made and priorities shift, and choices are made collaboratively.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for teaching skills and doing longer conversations, while phone calls can fit a break at work or lower bandwidth times. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coaching, and keeping momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use tools in the places where problems actually occur.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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