About Gloria
Gloria Whelchel is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona. She has two decades of experience helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and bipolar concerns. Gloria focuses on building a respectful, compassionate space where people can start to feel understood.
She uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person. Sessions are shaped to meet practical needs, whether that means learning new coping skills, working through painful memories, or rebuilding motivation and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Gloria emphasizes clear goals and step-by-step progress. Her approach draws on mindfulness and acceptance strategies to help people tolerate distress and notice what matters to them. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills can be used when someone needs stronger emotion regulation and interpersonal tools. Gloria has worked across a range of concerns, including dissociation, codependency, communication problems, control issues, jealousy, and feelings of emptiness. She also supports people dealing with divorce or separation, midlife transitions, and questions of life purpose.
The goal is to help each person feel more steady and able to move forward. Treatment plans are individualized and adjusted as progress is made. Gloria invites people to take the first step and says small changes in how someone copes can lead to clearer thinking and more meaningful daily life.
How therapy approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. Online ACT sessions can guide someone through exercises and values work from wherever they are, helping reduce avoidance and increase purposeful action. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and behavior. Through guided conversation and reflection, this approach helps people recognize repeating patterns and try new ways of relating.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan as you progress. That collaboration helps ensure techniques like mindfulness or emotion-regulation skills are applied in ways that feel useful and realistic for your life.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let you see facial cues and work interactively. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can feel simpler for check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, travel schedule, or busy home life while still using ACT, attachment-focused ideas, and mindfulness work.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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