About Gillian
Gillian DeLano is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She is listed with the credentials LSCSW and LCSW and practices in Kansas. Her style is straightforward and supportive for people ready to try change.
She aims to meet people where they are and build on strengths they already have. Gillian believes clients are the experts on their own lives and that small, steady steps can lead to real shifts.
Background and approach
She talks through practical strategies and helps people find what works in daily life. Her experience includes working with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with chronic pain, illness, or disability and those challenged by communication problems or post-traumatic stress.
First responder issues, forgiveness, guilt, and shame are additional areas she addresses. Gillian uses tools drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful patterns, clarify values, and experiment with new behaviors.
The focus is on practical change rather than labels. People can expect a collaborative process that balances skills practice with talking through hard experiences. She encourages clients to set goals and try manageable steps between meetings.
The aim is to increase functioning and reduce the daily burden of worry and stress.
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. ACT focuses on values and small actions that match what matters to the person and can reduce the impact of anxiety and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, and many everyday struggles.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and will try methods that fit the individual. Together they adjust what is working and what is not until a helpful mix of tools is found.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls approximate face-to-face conversation and allow visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter exchanges when a full session is not possible. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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