About Gale
Gale Green is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strains, grief, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and listens first to understand what’s most urgent for each person. Her approach aims to make difficult topics easier to talk about and practical steps clearer.
Gale trained for this work after a long career in other fields and returned to school to earn a master’s degree.
Background and approach
She has practiced in Missouri for about 20 years as an LPC. That mix of life experience and clinical experience shapes how she meets people where they are. In sessions she uses client-centered listening as a starting point.
From there she brings in tools from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to help with emotion regulation and staying grounded. She also uses motivational interviewing and trauma-focused ideas when those methods fit a person’s needs. Gale works with adults on issues such as addiction, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, self-esteem, anger, and coping with serious illness or caregiving stress.
She also helps people facing family-of-origin problems, divorce and separation, blended family concerns, or first responder stress. Her style emphasizes empathy, honest communication, and collaboration. She will work with each person to identify goals and practical steps they can use between sessions.
Sessions are offered in English and Gale is available to people both in Missouri and internationally. To begin, she asks people to describe what brought them to therapy, and then she and the client shape a plan together that fits their situation and preferences.
How Gale’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Gale often draws on client-centered therapy to guide sessions by listening first and following what matters most to the person. That approach helps create a clear agenda for online visits and points to small, doable steps between sessions.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. Those skills can be practiced and reviewed during video or phone sessions and reinforced with brief messages or chat exercises between meetings.
Mindfulness therapy is another tool she uses to help people notice thoughts and bodily reactions without being overwhelmed. Short guided practices fit well into a live session and can be recorded or repeated during text-based messaging or phone check-ins.
Gale treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that match those needs, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. This collaborative process aims to make online work feel practical and personalized.
Online formats offer practical benefits: video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support quick check-ins, and text messaging helps keep momentum between visits. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life and make it easier to practice skills in everyday settings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English