About Adalheidur
Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir welcomes people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She speaks English and Icelandic and practices as a licensed clinical social worker in Kansas. Ally uses a partnership model - she listens, reflects, and helps each person find practical steps forward.
Ally draws on five years of clinical experience and prior social work roles to guide her work. She aims to build on each person's strengths and practical skills.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real problems like mood swings, grief, anger, or difficulty concentrating, and on concrete coping strategies that fit daily life. Her approach blends client-centered techniques with cognitive behavioral methods and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. That means clients are heard first, then they learn ways to change unhelpful patterns and manage intense emotions.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing ideas are used when they fit the client's goals. Ally has worked across a range of concerns including ADHD, attachment struggles, trauma and abuse, body image, and blended family stress. She also supports people facing compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and intimacy-related issues.
The emphasis is on small, doable changes rather than quick fixes. People connect with Ally through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model where sessions and messaging are scheduled based on the person and therapist availability.
To begin, there is a short questionnaire and then scheduling according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Ally often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and building a collaborative relationship so people feel seen and heard. This approach helps when someone needs a safe, steady space to sort through emotions and make decisions.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical, everyday experiments to change them. Dialectical behavior therapy provides skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication, which can be useful for intense mood swings or relationship stress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Ally will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. The plan can change as progress is made, and decisions are made together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging to match different needs and schedules. Video is useful for longer sessions and visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a quick check-in, and texting lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting around school, work, or caregiving commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English, Icelandic