Gala Oliver-Singh, LPC

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” This idea anchors Gala Oliver-Singh’s approach to therapy, offering a perspective that emphasizes active response over reactivity when facing life transitions. As a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), she draws on her own transformational journey and formal training to support others in creating new narratives and healthier patterns.

Gala earned a Master’s degree in Counseling and Guidance from Louisiana Tech University and has worked across a variety of settings with children, adolescents, and adults. Her background includes outpatient and community mental health, school-based services, group facilitation for LGBTQ young adults, Safe Zone training consultation on identity development and coming-out processes, and counseling work with survivors of domestic violence and their families. These roles have informed a practice grounded in empowerment and advocacy for individuals and groups who have experienced marginalization.

Her clinical style is client-centered, relational, and collaborative, integrating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) along with mindfulness, solution-focused, and family systems approaches as appropriate. Gala aims to help clients identify and adopt healthy behaviors that reflect their goals, offering support, encouragement, and practical skills to navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, trauma and grief, parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, and career or life-purpose transitions.

Gala has particular experience with ethnic and sexual identity questions, blended family dynamics, communication problems, and youth development. She frames therapy as a space for learning, growth, and renewed trust in change, helping people move from surviving circumstances to shaping lives marked by increased joy, opportunity, and well-being.