About Gabriela
Gabriela Loera helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, ADHD, and self-esteem struggles. She also supports concerns like compassion fatigue, coping with life changes, and issues related to adoption and foster care. Gabriela is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, practicing in Virginia with six years of experience.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. She treats the person in front of her as the expert on their own life.
How Gabriela works
Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings, along with space to talk about what matters most to them. Gabriela draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace and priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
When helpful, she brings in solution-focused and psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns and find concrete changes. People meet Gabriela for a mixture of short-term goals and longer personal work. She aims to make sessions understandable and useful right away.
The work often includes trying small experiments, learning clearer ways to communicate, and reflecting on past events that still affect daily life. Her areas of additional focus include family of origin issues, blended family concerns, immigration and aging issues, postpartum and pregnancy-related mood changes, substance use challenges, and questions of life purpose and self-love.
Sessions are offered in English for residents of Virginia.
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What Gabriela works with
The areas below are the ones Gabriela selected when setting up a profile. The first one is listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person’s lead. The therapist creates space for people to tell their story and identifies strengths to build on, which can help with stress, parenting challenges, and self-esteem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps spot unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with practical strategies. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different methods, and adjust plans based on what feels most helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to find a mix of techniques that fit current needs and preferences.
Online therapy brings practical benefits. Video calls let people have fuller conversations and see facial cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick updates, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing helps someone organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between meetings.
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