About Gayle
Gayle Reser is an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) with 38 years of experience in behavioral health. She offers a conversational, down-to-earth style and focuses on building rapport so people feel heard. Her work often addresses stress and anxiety alongside depression and relationship struggles.
Gayle uses practical, problem-focused methods in therapy. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses Emotionally-Focused ideas to work through difficult feelings in relationships and Solution-Focused techniques to set concrete, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Her background includes helping people facing addictions, grief, and the complex changes that come with aging and dementia in a family. She has experience addressing domestic violence concerns and connecting people with community resources when extra support is needed. Gayle also works with issues such as intimacy concerns, eating struggles, bipolar mood patterns, and career or life transitions.
Sessions may include conversations about coping skills for everyday stress, steps to manage anxiety, and planning for tangible changes at home or work. She aims to treat people with respect and dignity and to make therapy a straightforward, collaborative process. Gayle practices in Georgia and conducts sessions in English.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How Gayle's Approaches Work Online
Gayle uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or low mood, and she helps them try practical behavior changes to feel better. Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas guide conversations when relationship feelings are central, helping people name and move through strong emotions in clearer ways. Solution-Focused Therapy centers on small, concrete steps and short-term goals so progress is visible and manageable.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Gayle will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then recommend ways of working together. She adjusts methods over time based on what helps most, so the plan fits the client's needs rather than forcing a single technique.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit brief updates or moments when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to maintain regular sessions and apply strategies in real life between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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