Alison Gabel , LPC

Alison Gabel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri. She draws on 11 years of clinical experience to help people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. Alison centers sessions on each person’s goals and priorities so work happens at a pace that fits them.

Alison often supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse. She also helps those facing relationship strain, grief, self-esteem struggles, career changes, and questions around intimacy. Her practice includes work with LGBT concerns, ADHD, bipolar challenges, and caregiving stress.

Her approach is rooted in attachment-based ideas and client-centered care. That means she pays attention to how relationships and early experiences shape current struggles, and she shapes sessions around what the client needs in the moment. She also uses psychodynamic and solution-focused methods and brings trauma-focused work when needed.

Sessions may include talking, reflecting on patterns, and practical problem-solving for day-to-day challenges. She can address specific topics such as body image, commitment issues, codependency, and communication problems. Alison also works with people navigating BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture concerns in a nonjudgmental way.

Alison offers online options that include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. English-language sessions are offered, and she is open to international clients. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed before scheduling.

Approaches that shape online sessions

Alison uses attachment-based and client-centered approaches in much of her work. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early and current relationships affect feelings and behavior, which can help with intimacy, abandonment, and communication problems. Client-centered therapy means sessions are led by the client’s goals and needs, with the therapist offering support, reflection, and guidance rather than a rigid plan.

She also draws on trauma-focused and solution-focused methods when they fit the situation. Trauma-focused work helps people process painful events and reduce their impact on daily life, while solution-focused work identifies practical steps to improve mood and function. Together these approaches allow a mix of deeper exploration and concrete problem-solving tailored to the client.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and adjust methods as those goals evolve. Clients can expect to co-create a plan that balances insight work with actionable strategies.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls support face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for short check-ins, and text messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.