Gabriele Hoog

Gabriele Hoog is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, mood disorders, and the upset that follows trauma. She offers calm, direct support for everyday problems like sleep and eating issues, parenting strain, relationship troubles, and low self-esteem. Gabby aims to make it easier to talk about hard feelings and to find steps forward.

She brings 20 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on both emotional processing and practical skills. She works with clients living with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, substance use, and grief. She also helps people facing life changes, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and problems with attachment and abandonment.

Her approach centers on the client and their strengths. She uses a solutions-focused, strengths-based way of working to build a plan that fits each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to spot how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and to try out new responses.

Gabby also teaches distress tolerance and grounding methods drawn from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, along with mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing techniques to support change. She encourages attention to overall wellness, including sleep, diet, exercise, and self-care as part of progress.

Sessions are collaborative and practical. She helps clients identify small steps they can use between meetings to manage intense emotions and break old patterns. The goal is to restore balance and make daily life more manageable.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, validation, and building on each person's strengths. Online sessions using this approach are a place to describe what matters and decide practical next steps together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people see the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then try small experiments to change unhelpful patterns; it often includes homework like tracking thoughts or testing new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides concrete skills for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and mindfulness that can be taught and practiced in sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with clients to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That may mean combining CBT skills with DBT grounding techniques and client-centered planning so the plan feels useful and doable.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten some check-ins when time is tight, and let clients practice skills between meetings in real-life settings. Licensed professionals can guide pacing and homework so therapy fits into everyday routines without adding extra strain.