About Gabrielle
Gabrielle (Gabbi) Schwenzfeier is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with five years of practice in Minnesota. She focuses on practical, person-focused therapy and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and doable. Gabbi uses clear, steady support to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood challenges, addiction, and ADHD-related struggles.
Gabbi draws on client-centered work so the person sets the pace and priorities. She combines that with cognitive behavioral tools to notice how thoughts influence actions.
Background and approach
She also uses dialectical behavior skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when intense feelings get in the way of daily life. Her background includes work in homes, schools, and residential treatment settings. That range shaped a style that adapts to different needs, from coping with loss to addressing patterns tied to trauma and attachment.
She has experience with mood disorders, substance concerns, eating issues, and relationship struggles. Gabbi values practical steps and short-term goals when that fits, and deeper exploration when people want it. She can help parents build attachment and parenting skills and supports people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and identity-related struggles such as body image or isolation.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Her Minnesota LICSW reflects her clinical credential and her degree in social work informs her focus on real-life changes and coping strategies.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Gabbi blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior techniques to shape online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's goals so the therapist supports what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors connect and offers concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy adds skills such as mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation for managing strong feelings or impulsive reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Gabbi treats it as a collaboration. She will talk with each person about their needs and goals, then suggest methods to try. That plan can change over time based on what helps most and what the person prefers.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different routines. Video lets people use visual cues and longer discussions, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports shorter, ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and location constraints.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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