About Gayle
Gayle Reser is an LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia, who brings decades of behavioral health experience to each session. She meets people where they are with a calm, conversational style. Gayle focuses on practical steps to relieve stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction-related struggles.
She also helps with relationship and family concerns, grief, and problems that arise with aging and end-of-life care. Gayle draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work to create clear, doable goals.
Background and approach
She listens first, then suggests small experiments and tools to try between sessions. Her manner is respectful and unhurried, aimed at building trust so people feel comfortable speaking honestly. Many clients come with overlapping challenges, such as mood disorders combined with substance use or caregiving strains tied to dementia.
Gayle has long experience identifying helpful community resources and coordinating practical supports when needed. She pays attention to life stage issues including midlife transition, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and aging-related family role changes. Sessions use straightforward language and focus on what can change now.
Gayle helps people work through intimacy issues, parenting strains, career stress, and identity questions, including LGBT matters. She also addresses trauma, anger, eating concerns, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes nearly four decades in clinical practice across individual and group settings.
Gayle emphasizes respect and dignity in each encounter and partners with clients to set realistic goals they can measure and adjust over time.
Practical Approaches for Online Work
Gayle uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and for managing mood swings by teaching concrete skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on the emotions beneath relationship patterns and on strengthening connection and communication between partners or in close relationships. Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, doable steps and past successes to build momentum toward goals.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Gayle will discuss options with each person or couple and adapt methods to fit goals and preferences. Together they set short-term objectives and review what’s working as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, progress notes, or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to schedule regular sessions and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English