About Gilbert
Gilbert Clark is a licensed professional counselor and counselor clinician who focuses on practical, person-centered care. He blends talking, active listening, and hands-on tools so people can take small steps that change day-to-day life. Gilbert brings 12 years of clinical experience to sessions and draws on approaches that emphasize values, relationships, and coping skills.
He often helps people dealing with addiction and recovery. He also supports those facing depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, stress, and grief.
Background and approach
Relationship and intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem, anger, and career stress are common topics he addresses in sessions. Gilbert uses a mix of methods rather than a single model. He adapts strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and client-centered methods to fit each person.
That means therapy can include behavioral tools, skills practice, and conversations about patterns and values. Practical tools are paired with support for deeper issues like attachment wounds, abandonment, family of origin concerns, and codependency. He also addresses chronic pain or illness, caregiver stress, hoarding, and substance use challenges.
Work may blend skill-building, emotion regulation, and exploring relationship patterns. Sessions are offered in English and available remotely to people inside and outside the United States. Gilbert holds an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) and an LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor) in Michigan and nearby jurisdictions depending on licensing rules.
Approach-driven care available online
Gilbert commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful actions even when emotions are hard. It helps with anxiety, depression, and making changes during recovery. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and trust, and it helps people understand and shift repeating relationship problems.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gilbert will talk with each person about goals, history, and what feels useful, then tailor methods together. That collaborative planning means sessions can combine skills practice, values work, and exploration of relationship patterns as needed.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can work well for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing out thoughts helps more than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and recovery routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Michigan
- Languages
- English