Gabriele Hoog , LCSW

Gabriele Hoog is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with two decades of clinical experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and substance use. She creates a compassionate, validating setting where individuals can explore difficult emotions, process past hurts, and develop practical tools to move forward. She emphasizes a strengths-based, solutions-focused approach that recognizes each person as the expert on their own life and builds treatment plans around personal resources and goals.

Gabriele integrates evidence-based strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helping clients understand how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected and teaching concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach distress tolerance, grounding, mindfulness, and breathing techniques for managing intense emotions. Her work extends beyond symptom reduction to overall wellness, addressing areas such as sleep, exercise, diet, and self-care as part of a balanced recovery.

In sessions she offers encouragement and practical guidance while empowering clients to try new coping strategies and take deliberate steps toward change. Gabriele works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and family issues, grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar and other mood disorders, and life transitions. Her practice aims to restore balance and help people regain a sense of agency in their lives.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Gabriele uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients lead the conversation and the therapist follows their priorities. This approach focuses on listening, empathy, and building on a person’s existing strengths to support self-directed change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to help clients identify and change thought patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, and unhelpful behaviors by teaching practical skills for managing thoughts and actions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) complements these approaches by offering concrete techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and mindful presence, which are useful for intense emotions and relationship difficulties.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gabriele works with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and then tailors methods and skills training to fit what will be most useful. Clients are involved in setting priorities and selecting strategies so therapy feels relevant and doable.

Online sessions - via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and overcome barriers like travel or scheduling conflicts. These options offer flexibility in timing and format, allowing people to access licensed professionals and continue therapeutic work in a way that suits their routine and comfort level.