About Gabriele
Gabriele Hoog offers steady, practical support for people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely so clients feel heard. Gabby is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience and brings calm focus to difficult moments.
She meets each person where they are and helps them name what is most urgent. Sessions often include exploring feelings, sorting through unhelpful thinking, and building new skills for everyday stress.
Background and approach
The work balances understanding past hurt with steps to feel better now. Gabriele uses approaches that emphasize strengths and small, achievable changes. She helps clients spot patterns that keep problems alive and then practices alternatives together.
Skill-building may cover mood management, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Clients set goals and she offers tools and encouragement to reach them.
Practical topics like sleep, self-care, and routine are part of the plan when they affect emotional health. Over two decades of clinical work inform her choices, but the focus stays on what each person needs now. Sessions may include short-term problem solving or longer work on deeper issues.
The aim is steady progress toward more balance and control.
How practical approaches translate to online therapy
Gabriele commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and building trust so clients can explore what matters most. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new actions to change mood and behavior. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, such as grounding, breathing, and distress tolerance techniques.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they pick methods and adjust them over time so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when schedules or distance make in-person meetings hard. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a check-in needs to fit a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, flexible check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to practice new skills in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English