About Gala
Gala Oliver-Singh is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 22 years of experience helping people navigate change. She began this path after her own personal work and uses that perspective to guide others toward clearer choices and new patterns. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at helping people respond to life instead of reacting.
She focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. She also supports people working through relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, blended family challenges, and communication problems.
Background and approach
Gala has a long history of working with sexual and ethnic minority communities and brings that awareness into sessions when it is relevant. Gala blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she listens first, then helps people try small changes and new ways of thinking that can ease distress.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Her experience includes clinics, schools, community programs, and domestic violence services. She has run support groups for LGBTQ young adults and provided school-based therapy and family intervention.
Those roles shaped her focus on practical coping skills and safety planning when needed. People who work with Gala can expect straightforward guidance, gentle challenge, and actionable steps between sessions. She aims to help clients build routines and habits that support better mood, clearer relationships, and more confidence in daily life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Gala works from client-centered principles that begin by listening and shaping goals with each person. This means sessions start with the client's priorities and move at a comfortable pace, focusing on what matters most to them and building steps they can actually try between meetings.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many relationship or parenting challenges because it gives clear exercises and small, measurable changes to practice.
Deciding which approach to emphasize is collaborative. She will help figure out which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences and adjust the work as progress is made. Clients and therapist choose the pace, tools, and focus together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging support brief updates, coaching-style feedback, or flexibility during busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, and family life while keeping a steady course of support.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English