About Gail
Gail Amalfitano is a licensed mental health counselor who brings a warm, person-centered approach to therapy. She holds the LMHC and LPC credentials and has nine years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, stress, mood shifts, and substance-related concerns. Gail writes and shares practical resources to help clients learn as they go.
Gail focuses on everyday problems that can feel overwhelming. She helps people with anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, trauma, grief, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues like codependency, low self-esteem, sleep and eating concerns, and feeling stuck. Her style blends talk therapy with practical tools. Sessions often combine cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and client-centered conversations.
She uses brief, solution-focused strategies and sometimes brings in exercises, handouts, or short videos for skill building. Gail begins by gathering clear information about a person’s situation, then creates a plan together. She balances listening with problem solving and teaching.
Clients often receive suggestions for readings or exercises to practice between sessions. She aims to be nonjudgmental, empathetic, and flexible. Gail adjusts the mix of support, skills training, and validation to match each person’s needs.
Her goal is to help people find options, build resilience, and move toward everyday functioning they can rely on.
Online approaches that teach skills and build connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values while accepting uncomfortable feelings. It works well for persistent anxiety and difficulty coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety, change negative thought patterns, and improve mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and helps the person find their own solutions and strengths.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Gail will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time as needs change, blending skill training, problem solving, and supportive conversation so the plan stays useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions for skills practice. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are handy for brief updates, homework support, or when someone prefers typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue working on anxiety, relationships, and day-to-day coping from wherever a person is located.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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