About Gail
Gail Roberson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 35 years of experience. She practices remotely from Missouri and focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. Her approach is practical and interactive, aimed at getting results that fit each person’s life.
Gail uses a mix of therapies to match individual needs, including cognitive-behavioral and acceptance-based methods. She listens without judgment and teaches concrete skills for coping, communication, and emotional regulation.
Background and approach
Sessions often include short exercises and tools clients can use between meetings. Her long career has emphasized flexibility. Gail tailors sessions to immediate concerns like parenting stress, grief, relationship issues, or work fatigue, while also supporting people who want to build a healthier life long-term.
She describes therapy as collaborative problem solving rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription. Gail shifted to exclusively offering remote counseling more than five years ago. That change was meant to reduce travel and make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules.
Many clients find it quicker to focus on their concerns when they meet from their own usual surroundings. Outside of clinical work she writes children’s books and spends time traveling in an RV with her husband and two Tonkinese cats.
Her life on the road informs a relaxed, down-to-earth style in sessions and a focus on practical strategies that work in everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches for online counseling
Gail draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to guide most online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical actions, which can help with anxiety, depression, and problem-solving. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches people to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then take values-driven action toward the life they want.Finding the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily life, and what feels most useful. Together they choose or combine methods and adjust them as progress unfolds so sessions stay relevant and effective.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing work between scheduled sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into work, family, or travel routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Arizona
- Languages
- English