About Gloria
Gloria Wright uses a client-centered approach to guide people toward clearer goals and better day-to-day functioning. She draws on strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help manage symptoms and rebuild routines. Gloria holds an IL LCPC and brings 25 years of clinical experience to her work.
She focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, and low self-esteem. She also helps people facing addiction, anger, trauma and grief.
Background and approach
Career challenges, bipolar concerns, family issues, money and financial stress, and women's issues are included in her areas of attention. Sessions begin by talking through current problems and what change would look like. Gloria works with each person to create a clear plan that fits their goals.
She uses practical tools from CBT to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and DBT skills to manage strong emotions. Mindfulness techniques are taught in straightforward ways, such as short breathing and grounding practices. Motivational interviewing is used to explore readiness for change and strengthen personal motivation.
The work is collaborative and paced to what the person needs. Gloria aims to be compassionate and non-judgmental in sessions. She wants clients to leave feeling more hopeful and with concrete steps to try between meetings.
Her style emphasizes steady progress and realistic strategies. People meet with her from across Illinois using multiple online formats. Her background and practical focus make sessions goal-oriented while keeping the conversation direct and supportive.
Approach-driven online care with practical tools
Gloria often uses client-centered methods to create a respectful, goal-oriented space where the person sets priorities. This approach focuses on understanding what matters to the individual and building a plan that fits their life.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT offers concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or depression. Dialectical behavior therapy adds skills for handling intense emotions and improving distress tolerance, which can be useful for anger, addictions, or mood instability.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different tools. Together they decide which techniques to use and adjust them as needed over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, skill practice, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep work moving forward.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Money and financial issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English