Gabriele Hoog, LCSW

Gabriele Hoog, LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), brings more than 20 years of clinical experience to her therapeutic work and focuses on creating a supportive space where people feel heard and validated. She offers a compassionate, strengths-based approach that helps individuals explore difficult emotions, process trauma, and address challenges such as depression, anxiety, substance use, relationship problems, anger management, and low self-esteem.

Alongside providing a space for emotional processing, she emphasizes developing concrete strategies to manage intense feelings and interrupt long-standing patterns. Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), she guides clients to recognize how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact, and supports them as they learn to choose different responses rather than react automatically. She also teaches distress tolerance techniques drawn from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), including mindfulness, grounding skills, and breathing exercises to help manage overwhelming emotions.

Her work often extends beyond symptom relief to consider overall wellness, including attention to sleep, exercise, diet, and self-care as part of a balanced recovery. Working through a strengths-based and solution-focused lens, she collaborates with each person to develop a personalized treatment plan that builds on existing resources and supports forward progress.

Taking the step to begin therapy is framed as an act of strength, and her primary aim is to encourage and promote changes that restore peace and balance to clients' lives.