About Gabrielle
Gabrielle Thomas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. She supports adults navigating relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, identity issues, career changes, and anger or self-esteem struggles. Gabrielle brings a calm, down-to-earth presence to sessions and aims to make conversations feel straightforward and respectful.
She draws on seven years of clinical experience across mental health, crisis work, substance use, and end-of-life support.
Background and approach
Gabrielle uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try small changes. She also integrates acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients clarify values and take manageable steps toward them. Attachment-based perspectives shape how she talks about relationships and family history.
That lens can help clients understand emotional reactions and improve communication. Gabrielle keeps work focused on what matters now and what people want their lives to look like in the future. Her style is warm and interactive.
Sessions often include gentle questioning, skill practice, and short exercises to try between meetings. Gabrielle favors plain language over labels and aims to treat each person with sensitivity and respect. Gabrielle holds state social work credentials in Georgia and Alabama, listed as GA LCSW CSW007491 and AL LICSW 4535C.
She offers care in English and provides therapy through live video, phone, chat, and text formats.
Approaches that guide online work
Gabrielle commonly uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new, practical skills. CBT often focuses on changing patterns through short exercises and experiments that can reduce anxiety or improve mood.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people get clearer about what matters to them and take small steps in that direction even when feelings are difficult. That approach can be useful for stress, low mood, and life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gabrielle will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or text work well for shorter check-ins or ongoing support during the week. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules and make follow-up between sessions easier.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Alabama
- Languages
- English