Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir , LCSW, LSCSW

Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain. She writes in a straightforward way and aims to make therapy feel like a practical partnership. Ally is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker, and she brings five years of therapy experience to each meeting.

Ally focuses on everyday concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting strains. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and identity concerns including LGBT matters. She can help with attention challenges like ADHD and with managing mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.

Her style centers on building a respectful, collaborative relationship. Sessions are client-centered, which means the person’s goals guide the work. Ally also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills to manage intense emotions. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are part of her toolbox when they fit a client’s needs.

Ally’s background in social work informs how she looks at life’s systems and relationships. She pays attention to family of origin issues, communication patterns, attachment, and blended family dynamics. She also works with concerns around body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and alternative sexual cultures like BDSM and kink.

She offers therapy in English and Icelandic and practices from Kansas. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect a person to the right schedule and format.

Approaches and how they work online

Client-centered therapy places the client's goals at the center of each session and focuses on building a trusting, respectful partnership. It helps people clarify what matters to them and move toward practical changes.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches steps to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and some relationship or parenting problems.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can help when emotions feel intense or relationships are strained.

Ally treats finding the right approach as a shared process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Adjustments are made along the way so the work stays relevant to the client’s needs.

Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video calls are good for fuller conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit during a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging supports brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into real life while using the approaches above.