Gabriele Hoog

Gabriele Hoog recognizes that reaching out for help often takes considerable strength and courage. She strives to offer a calm, supportive atmosphere where clients are listened to, validated, and can feel safe as they explore difficult emotions and experiences.

She is licensed in Missouri as a clinical social worker, a credential that reflects advanced clinical training and authorization to provide psychotherapy (license MO LCSW 2011030925).

With more than 20 years of clinical experience, Gabriele supports people living with depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and substance use or addictions. She also works with clients facing bipolar disorder, relationship and family conflicts, grief, eating and sleeping disorders, parenting concerns, anger management, self-esteem challenges, career difficulties, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

In addition to providing a space to process feelings, she emphasizes developing practical strategies for managing intense emotions so clients can make forward progress. Using a strengths-based and solutions-focused approach, she collaborates with clients to create individualized treatment plans. Gabriele draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and she teaches distress tolerance skills from dialectical behavior therapy - including mindfulness, grounding techniques, and breathing exercises - to help manage overwhelming states.

Gabriele views each person as the expert on their own life and aims to empower clients to identify and build on their personal strengths. Her primary goal as a therapist is to encourage change that restores greater peace and balance to daily life.