About Gabrielle
Gabrielle Pikoulas is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 19 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and mood concerns. Her approach is direct and warm, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable.
She listens first, then shapes the conversation to fit each person's situation. Sessions are tailored to the concerns brought in, whether that means working on coping skills for anxiety, handling life changes, or addressing relationship and intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, addictions, and challenges around sleep or eating. Gabrielle draws on client-centered methods to create a collaborative space. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Emotionally-focused ideas guide work on attachment, connection, and emotional awareness. Her practice emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every session. She aims to make treatment practical and easy to use in day-to-day life, with clear steps and goals.
Gabrielle encourages people to bring their real-world problems into sessions so they can be worked on together. She practices in New York and conducts sessions in English. Gabrielle helps clients who are navigating career stress, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related concerns, and a range of mood and behavioral issues.
She tailors plans to each person's needs and circumstances.
How her approaches work online
Gabrielle uses client-centered Therapy to focus on each person's viewpoint and priorities. This approach means sessions begin with what matters most to the client and the therapist adapts to that pace and focus. Client-centered work helps when someone needs a listening space and practical next steps.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at patterns of thought and behavior that keep stress or anxiety going. CBT is useful for learning skills to manage anxiety, change unhelpful thinking, and build better routines for sleep, eating, or impulse control. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name emotions and improves how they relate to others and themselves, which can be helpful for intimacy-related concerns and relationship stress.
Choosing an approach is a team process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit, and adjust based on what helps. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins and are helpful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief moments of support and ongoing check-ins between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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