About Gale
Dr. Gale Kelley helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about next steps. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction, and supports parents coping with parenting strain and other life changes.
Her tone is practical and hopeful, and she aims to leave clients with something useful after each session. Gale uses clear, down-to-earth explanations to help clients understand what’s happening and why. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings, and on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift upsetting thoughts.
How Gale works
Sessions also include solution-focused steps so clients leave with concrete actions to try between meetings. Clients begin with a short assessment so the therapist can see what areas are affecting day-to-day life. Together they set specific goals and check progress along the way.
Gale emphasizes skills people can use right away, like emotion regulation tools or new communication practices. She has 18 years of experience and holds a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, LMHC. Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, adoption and foster care issues, aging concerns, body image and attachment problems, and stress related to caregiving and life transitions.
Sessions are offered in English and Gale accepts international clients. She uses a collaborative style and aims to help each person build on their strengths while addressing practical problems.
Gale lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Gale works with
The areas below are the ones Gale selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotion and behavior. Online work can use this approach to help people understand patterns in their close relationships and learn new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and depression. It is practical and works well through conversations plus short exercises between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Over the first few meetings they will review progress and adjust strategies so the plan fits the client’s life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t practical, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep steady momentum toward goals.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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