About Alison
Alison Gabel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri. She draws on eleven years of clinical experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and a wide range of life challenges. She favors a person-centered approach that lets each session follow the client's needs and goals.
That means conversations focus on what matters most to the person in the room, not on a fixed formula. Alison combines this with attachment-based and trauma-focused ideas to understand how past relationships and experiences shape current feelings and behaviors.
How Alison works
In practice she helps people untangle relationship and intimacy concerns, work through grief and loss, and cope with career stress. She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue, ADHD, body image worries, or the emotional effects of medical issues like cancer. Alison is experienced addressing abandonment, attachment issues, and complex situations tied to kink and alternative sexual culture.
Her style leans toward clear, practical conversations. She helps clients identify small, manageable steps that move them toward their goals. Sessions may involve looking at patterns that come from early relationships, processing traumatic memories, or setting short-term goals to reduce daily stress.
Alison accepts English-speaking clients from Missouri and internationally. She works via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.
Alison lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Alison works with
The areas below are the ones Alison selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy that meets you where you are
Alison uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships influence current emotions and behaviors. This approach is useful for people who want to understand patterns in relationships, commitment concerns, or feelings of abandonment. Client-centered therapy is another core part of her practice and focuses sessions around the client's goals and perspectives. It helps when someone needs a flexible, nonjudgmental space to talk and decide what changes feel right for them.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Alison will discuss options with each person and together they will decide which methods fit best for the goals and challenges presented. She adapts plans as the work progresses so the approach can shift if needed to better support healing or practical change.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video is useful for a face-to-face feel, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is helpful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options allow scheduling around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and focused on real-world progress.
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