Alison Gabel, LPC

Alison Gabel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 11 years of clinical experience. She works with adults on concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and codependency. Sessions are guided by the client's needs and goals rather than a fixed protocol.

Alison often focuses on patterns that leave people putting others first at their own expense. She helps people notice attachment and abandonment themes that shape their choices. That can include trouble saying no, chronic people-pleasing, or living around someone else's moods or drinking.

Her practice draws on client-centered work and attachment-based ideas to explore how early relationships still affect present behavior. She also uses psychodynamic thinking to look at recurring emotional patterns, and solution-focused techniques to set concrete steps forward. Trauma-focused approaches inform how she works with difficult past events.

In a session she listens for what feels most urgent, then helps uncover small, achievable changes. Conversations include identifying boundary steps, practicing ways to say no, and noticing how relationships trigger old responses. Practical experiments between sessions are common.

Alison has experience with a broad range of life stressors and specific concerns like LGBT issues, ADHD, caregiver strain, and sexual diversity including BDSM and kink. She also supports people dealing with body image, career stress, and bipolar-related challenges.

People who choose her tend to want a direct, relational style that names patterns and tests new ways of relating. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session to outline goals and next steps.

How Alison’s approaches translate to online work