Gabriele Hoog , LCSW

Gabriele Hoog is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood disorders, and substance use concerns. She focuses on practical ways to feel steadier, regain balance, and handle intense emotions. Gabby aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can be heard and understood.

Her work centers on skills you can use day to day. She helps people spot how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches ways to change unhelpful patterns. That often includes learning grounding, breathing, and distress-tolerance techniques to reduce overwhelm.

Gabriele uses a strengths-focused, solutions-oriented approach. She partners with clients to choose goals and build plans that fit their lives. This can include looking at sleep, exercise, diet, and other habits that affect mood and energy.

Her toolbox includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, client-centered methods, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Those methods are used to address depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, addictions, and other concerns listed in her specialties.

Sessions are offered for people managing grief, relationship problems, parenting strain, ADHD-related challenges, chronic illness or pain, and career or financial stress. She practices in Missouri and conducts sessions in English.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Client-centered work focuses on listening and meeting the person where they are, then building goals together. It is helpful when someone wants a supportive space to sort out feelings and make decisions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors for problems like anxiety, depression, and mood shifts.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills provide concrete tools for managing intense emotions. Techniques such as mindfulness, grounding, and breathing practices teach ways to tolerate distress and reduce impulsive reactions.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Plans can be adjusted over time as progress and challenges emerge.

Online therapy offers flexibility for different lifestyles. Video calls let people work face to face when screen access and bandwidth allow. Phone sessions can be a good option when a quieter space or less bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing through thoughts helps clarify feelings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.