About Gabrielle
Gabrielle Pikoulas is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 19 years of experience. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and steady support. Gabrielle aims to make the first steps feel manageable and affirms the courage it takes to begin.
Gabrielle helps people sort through stress, anxiety, and anger. She also works with depression, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and concerns around sleep, eating, and addictions. ADHD is listed among her focus areas and she addresses it alongside other life challenges.
Background and approach
Her style centers on listening first. She tailors conversations and care to match what each person needs that week. That can mean practical coping strategies, problem-focused work, or a gentler, emotionally attuned conversation depending on the situation.
Gabrielle draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters to the person in the room. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful patterns and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to connect emotion with relationship concerns. Together these approaches guide clear steps and supportive reflection.
Based in New York, Gabrielle combines nearly two decades of practice with a warm, direct approach. She aims to help people build tools, notice patterns, and make changes that fit their daily lives.
How Gabrielle’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist reflects what matters most and helps you name goals and priorities in straightforward language.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. It offers clear exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful patterns, which can be done between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people connect feelings to relationship patterns and personal reactions. It is useful when strong emotions get in the way of communication or daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gabrielle collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try first and adjusts based on progress, goals, and preferences. That shared process helps tailor sessions to real life challenges.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is handy for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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