About Alison
Alison Gabel is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri who focuses on trauma, anxiety, and mood concerns. She combines a person-centered attitude with practical tools to help people feel steadier and more in control. Sessions are shaped by each person's goals and pace rather than a fixed method.
Alison writes in plain terms and aims to help clients move from feeling stuck toward clearer direction. With 11 years of clinical experience, she has supported people facing depression, PTSD, stress, and grief.
Background and approach
Her work emphasizes trauma and crisis intervention alongside everyday struggles like work stress, relationship strain, and caregiving pressure. She also addresses identity-related concerns including LGBT issues and intimacy-related questions. Alison draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships influence current feelings.
She uses client-centered and psychodynamic perspectives to follow what matters most to the client and to notice patterns that repeat over time. Solution-focused steps and trauma-informed strategies add practical ways to try things differently between sessions.
Her additional focus areas include body image, codependency, abandonment and attachment issues, BDSM and kink topics, career and commitment concerns, and challenges tied to chronic illness or caregiving. She also supports people managing ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and anger or emptiness that get in the way of daily life.
People who choose Alison can expect clear conversation, collaborative planning, and tools to practice outside sessions. Work is paced to match readiness and real-life demands. The aim is clearer insight and useful changes that fit each person’s life and goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Alison commonly uses attachment-based approaches and client-centered methods to guide online work. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape emotions and expectations, which can help when relationship patterns or abandonment worries cause distress. Client-centered work puts the person's goals first, giving space to name what matters and move at a comfortable pace.She also draws on trauma-focused and solution-focused ideas when needed. Trauma-focused approaches address the effects of past harm and help reduce overwhelming reactions, while solution-focused steps identify small, practical changes that can be tried between sessions to build momentum.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Alison will listen to a person's history, goals, and preferences, then suggest options and adjust over time. Clients and therapist decide together which methods feel most useful and when to shift course.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps when visual cues and a conversational rhythm are important. Phone sessions can be lower-bandwidth and easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for short check-ins, coaching-style support, or when a written reflection feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English