About Gail
Dr. Gail Masterson is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 28 years of clinical experience. She practices in California and helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, and life changes.
She speaks English and offers sessions in several remote formats to fit busy schedules. Her work blends practical conversation with gentle questioning. She believes people often already know some answers and benefit from a skilled guide to help bring those into focus.
Background and approach
Sessions can be short-term problem solving or longer work to find deeper clarity and purpose. Dr. Masterson trained across several areas of psychotherapy and holds a PhD in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy.
She also has a BA in Humanities. Over her career she has used both brief, solution-oriented methods and extended, in-depth psychotherapy depending on client needs. People come to her for help with parenting stress, intimacy-related issues, career changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and midlife questions.
She also works with concerns related to aging, caregiver strain, fertility and end-of-life topics. Her approach adapts to the concern at hand and to what the person says they want to accomplish. Her style is collaborative and coaching-oriented.
She listens, asks focused questions, and helps people try new perspectives and strategies. Working together, she helps clients identify small steps that can change how they feel and act. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, visitors select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding the person’s perspective. The therapist reflects what is said and helps people clarify their own goals and values, which can help with relationship struggles, life transitions, and grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is practical and action-oriented, often useful for anxiety, depression, and social fears by teaching concrete skills to change thinking patterns and responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together decide whether short-term, skills-based work or deeper exploration fits best. This is a collaborative process that may combine listening, coaching, mindfulness practices, and behavioral experiments.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls let people use visual cues for a fuller conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be convenient for shorter check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options offer flexibility for scheduling around work, caregiving, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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