About Gabriele
Gabriele Hoog is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, mood changes, or addiction. Gabby aims to create a calm, respectful space where someone can be heard and start to feel steadier.
She uses a strengths-based approach that treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions blend practical skill-building with emotional support so clients can handle intense feelings and move forward.
Background and approach
That can mean learning how thoughts influence actions or practicing ways to reduce strong reactions in the moment. Her work often includes tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. She also teaches distress-tolerance and grounding skills from dialectical behavior therapy.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are added when they fit a person's goals. Gabriele talks about overall wellness too, such as sleep, movement, and routines that support mental health. She helps people translate insight into daily habits that reduce stress and improve mood.
The focus is on small, usable steps that make a real difference. Therapy with Gabby is collaborative. She helps people set realistic goals, tries out strategies together, and adjusts plans when needed.
Her aim is to restore balance and give people tools to face life with more confidence.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Gabriele commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes distress-tolerance, grounding, and mindfulness skills to manage intense emotions and reduce reactivity.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, what has helped in the past, and what feels manageable now, then adapt methods to fit each person. This collaborative process helps find techniques that feel useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues for deeper connection. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, shorter skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make attending therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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