Gabriele Hoog

Gabriele Hoog is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing strong emotions and life stressors. She aims to make clients feel heard and respected while they work through anger, anxiety, depression, or problems with addiction. Gabby offers steady support and practical skills so people can feel more in control.

She brings 20 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on both immediate coping and long-term change. She blends a strengths-based, solution-focused outlook with techniques that help people notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. That includes learning skills to tolerate distress and manage impulsive reactions.

Her approach emphasizes building everyday habits that support overall wellness. Conversations can include sleep, diet, exercise, and self-care as they relate to mood and energy. She also works with issues like grief, relationship strain, body image, caregiver stress, chronic pain, and life transitions.

In sessions the therapist encourages clients to take the lead in shaping goals. She offers guidance, concrete tools, and practice for trying new behaviors. Clients learn ways to challenge unhelpful thoughts and choose different actions instead of reacting automatically.

Gabriele aims to help people regain balance and move forward. She supports clients in developing a personal plan that fits their life and priorities. Readers in Missouri who prefer English can expect clear, practical help focused on lasting change.

How treatment approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The therapist creates a respectful, nonjudgmental space and helps people clarify what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, shows how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors connect and teaches practical ways to change unhelpful thinking and habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete distress tolerance and emotion-regulation skills like grounding, breathing, and mindfulness exercises to manage intense feelings.

Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try methods that fit their needs. If something does not feel helpful, the plan adjusts so sessions remain useful and focused on real-life change.

Session formats are not specified in the profile, so confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten check-ins when time is tight, avoid travel, and use tools like guided breathing or in-session skills practice from wherever is most convenient. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and DBT exercises to an online setting so clients can practice new skills between meetings.