About Gale
Dr. Gale Kelley is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 18 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and a wide range of life challenges.
She speaks English and works with people who want clear, practical help. Gale uses a client-centered style that starts with listening. She helps people name what is hardest and then sets simple goals to change what gets in the way.
Background and approach
Sessions usually include short, teachable tools and steps people can use between meetings. Her work draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thinking, attachment-based ideas to improve relationships, and trauma-focused practices for past hurts. She often includes brief education about how behavior and thinking interact so people better understand their reactions.
Assessment questions are used early on to identify areas affecting daily life. From there she and the client create a focused plan and track progress together. Clients can expect practical takeaways each session, like a new coping skill or a different way to view a recurring problem.
Gale aims for collaborative sessions where the client’s goals guide the work. She emphasizes wellness, prevention, and skills people can use long after therapy ends. Her approach is straightforward and paced to each person’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape how people feel and respond. This approach helps when trust, closeness, or repeated relationship patterns cause anxiety or conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is practical for anxiety, low mood, and problems that recur because of negative thinking.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will listen to your goals and needs, explain options, and try ideas together to see what helps. That way the plan reflects your priorities and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins, short coaching, or times when writing feels easier. These formats make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit around school, work, and caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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