About Gabriella
Gabriella Stumpf is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with eight years of experience. She brings personal insight into mental health alongside professional practice. Gabriella focuses on practical help for everyday problems like anxiety, stress, and changes that feel overwhelming.
She listens for what matters most to each person. Sessions are shaped around clear goals and simple steps that can be used between meetings. Gabriella uses evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try different responses.
Background and approach
Her approach also draws on attachment-based and narrative ideas to explore how past relationships and stories about yourself affect current struggles. That can be useful when working through relationship issues, family problems, grief, or trauma and abuse. She aims to make those topics easier to talk about in plain language.
Gabriella offers a flexible mix of session styles to fit different needs and schedules. She works with people coping with depression, addictions, bipolar challenges, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue, among other concerns. She also supports those facing abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and attachment questions.
Clients in Minnesota and beyond can connect in English through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The first steps are short and straightforward: answer a brief questionnaire and schedule a session that matches the time and format that work best.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Gabriella commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and increase calm in everyday moments.She also draws on attachment-based approaches to look at how early relationships shape current patterns and on narrative ideas to rewrite the stories people tell about themselves. Choosing the best approach is part of the work. Gabriella collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, situation, and comfort level, and she adjusts plans as progress unfolds.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter way to check in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to keep steady contact as goals evolve.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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