About Gail
Gail Amalfitano is a licensed clinician who blends practical therapy styles to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and mood concerns. She holds the LMHC and LPC credentials and brings nine years of experience to her work in Florida. Gail focuses on everyday problems that make life feel hard to live and aims to help clients take small steps toward relief.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her.
How Gail works
She draws on acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, attachment-focused thinking, dialectical skills, and client-centered listening. Sessions involve straightforward conversation, problem solving, and learning new ways to respond to difficult thoughts and feelings. Gail often helps people facing trauma, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, and struggles with relationships or intimacy.
She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, parenting concerns, and issues tied to adoption or abandonment. Practical tools and homework are used to build new patterns between sessions. Therapy with Gail typically includes education, worksheets, and short exercises to practice skills.
She adjusts the mix of listening, teaching, and skill-building based on each person’s needs and honest feedback. The goal is to help people feel more capable and less stuck. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are conducted in English and international clients are accepted. Gail emphasizes collaboration and respects each person’s pace when making changes.
Gail lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Gail works with
The areas below are the ones Gail selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and values, then take small actions toward a meaningful life even when feelings are uncomfortable. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and changing them through practical exercises and homework. It can help with mood problems, negative thinking, and coping with life changes.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current relationships and emotional responses. This approach can be useful for intimacy-related issues, attachment concerns, and relationship conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then adjust techniques as you move forward. Treatment is collaborative and changes over time based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions when nonverbal cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging suit quick questions, brief coaching, or ongoing support between appointments. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life and make it easier to attend sessions from different locations.
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