About Gail
Gail Amalfitano is a licensed mental health counselor who blends practical therapy with a warm, person-centered style. She draws on nine years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, substance concerns, mood disturbances, and ADHD. Her approach aims to be straightforward and compassionate, so people feel heard and understood from the start.
Gail uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to focus on how relationships and life history shape present struggles. Sessions often include discussion, simple skill practice, and handouts or short readings to reinforce what was learned. She works with common problems like depression, grief, anger, sleep and eating issues, and challenges around self-esteem and feeling stuck.
Gail also supports people facing caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care questions, and complexities related to intimacy, kink, or blended families. Her work includes coaching-style strategies for career and life transitions as well. Gail talks through goals with each person and adjusts the balance of listening, teaching, and problem solving to match what is needed.
She shares practical exercises that can be used between sessions, and explains reasons for suggested techniques. This makes therapy feel like a team effort toward clearer thinking and steadier coping. Located in Florida, Gail holds LMHC and LPC credentials and offers work that is respectful and nonjudgmental.
She emphasizes honest communication and invites feedback so the plan can change as needs shift over time.
Approach-driven care over video, phone, or messaging
Gail uses evidence-informed methods to guide online sessions in clear, usable ways. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce worry, low mood, and negative thinking patterns. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and build skills to act on those values even when emotions are difficult. Attachment-based ideas look at how past and present relationships shape feelings and reactions and can help with intimacy, trust, and connection issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gail discusses goals and preferences with each person and then recommends techniques that fit those needs. She adjusts the balance of listening, skills practice, and teaching as therapy progresses, so the plan stays collaborative and responsive.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets you use visual cues and practice skills in real time, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while still using the chosen therapeutic methods.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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