About Mallory
Mallory Gakpo is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Indiana who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, relationship strain, self-esteem struggles, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about hard things.
Mallory focuses on practical steps so people can feel steadier and more able to cope with life changes. She draws on seven years of clinical experience to guide conversations and set manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative; Mallory listens first and then works with each person to try different tools and approaches that fit their situation. She emphasizes real-world strategies people can use between meetings. Mallory speaks from personal experience with trauma and mental health challenges, which shapes how she connects with clients.
That perspective informs her focus on empathy and steady support rather than quick fixes. She encourages small steps and celebrates progress along the way. In sessions she aims to balance emotional work with concrete coping skills.
People can expect to practice breathing or grounding techniques, look at patterns that keep problems going, and try new ways of responding to stress. The goal is to build clearer thinking and more reliable routines. Mallory offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
She invites people ready to take a step toward change to begin with a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Many clients benefit from practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on current problems and coping skills. One approach emphasizes building coping skills and behavioral strategies to manage anxiety, cravings, and mood shifts. It teaches step-by-step actions people can use when stress or urges arise and helps create daily routines that support recovery and steadiness.Another common approach centers on processing trauma and painful experiences in a paced way. This method focuses on helping people name what happened, understand how it affects current feelings and reactions, and develop safer ways to respond when memories or triggers appear. It often pairs talk with grounding and emotion-regulation practices.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan over time. This means checking in about what helps, dropping what doesn't, and combining techniques in a way that feels useful.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support, and text-based messaging supports flexible, shorter communication between meetings. These options make scheduling easier and let people keep therapy going alongside work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English