About Gabrielle
Gabrielle Pikoulas is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and life changes. She works with people struggling with relationships, grief, trauma, addiction, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy. Gabrielle aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can talk through what feels hard right now.
She uses a straightforward, person-centered way of working. Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs, and she builds a plan that fits their goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include practical steps people can try between meetings to see real changes. Gabrielle also integrates cognitive behavioral ideas to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce distress. She draws on emotionally focused techniques when relationship patterns and closeness are central concerns.
This mix gives people tools to manage mood, improve communication, and cope with life stressors. With 19 years of experience, Gabrielle has supported people through parenting strain, career transitions, sleep and eating issues, bipolar and ADHD-related challenges, and compassion fatigue. She emphasizes sensitivity to each person’s background and identity, including LGBTQ concerns.
Her approach is practical and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people set small, achievable goals. Gabrielle recognizes that starting therapy can feel brave and aims to make the process clear and manageable for each person.
How Gabrielle’s Approaches Work Online
Gabrielle uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to each person. That means sessions begin with listening and shaping the work around the client's goals, feelings, and priorities. It helps when someone wants a supportive, accepting place to talk through problems.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers concrete exercises and strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change patterns that cause stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is used when relationship patterns or closeness are central, helping people notice emotions and shift how they connect with others.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gabrielle will help figure out what fits based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts methods as progress unfolds. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to try and when to change course.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging gives flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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