About Gabrielle
Gabrielle (Gabbi) Schwenzfeier is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota. She draws on several therapy styles to help people manage stress and anxiety and to cope with life changes. Gabbi keeps sessions practical and focused on skills that can be used between meetings.
She writes plainly and aims to make therapy feel understandable and manageable for busy families. Gabbi has five years of clinical experience in a variety of settings, including in-home work, schools, and residential treatment centers.
Background and approach
She has supported people facing depression, trauma and abuse, substance use concerns, bipolar disorder, and eating-related issues. Her background also includes helping parents with attachment and parenting skills. Her practice emphasizes a client-centered approach that starts with the person's own goals and priorities.
She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to connect thoughts and behaviors, and draws from dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills like mindfulness and distress tolerance. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat across relationships. Sessions can include brief problem-focused work or longer-term processing, depending on what a person wants.
Gabbi also uses solution-focused strategies to set clear, achievable goals and track progress. She accepts clients from Minnesota and international clients and conducts sessions in English. Outside of clinical work she enjoys being outdoors, exercising, and spending time with family.
She aims to meet people where they are and help them take small, concrete steps toward feeling better.
Approach-driven care available online
Gabbi commonly integrates cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-based ideas in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and helps people build practical strategies to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they influence current relationships and parenting, which can help people improve communication and reduce repeated conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to identify goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps. Many people start with skill-building and then move to deeper processing if they want to explore long-standing patterns.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for full sessions that include teaching skills and working through material visually. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, tracking progress, or practicing new skills between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to connect from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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