Benjamin 'Ben' Galloso

Benjamin "Ben" Galloso is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW, LCSW), certified addictions professional, and advanced heart-centered hypnotherapist in Florida with more than a decade of experience providing therapy, counseling, and hypnotherapy. He supports adults across a wide range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, codependency, addictions and compulsive patterns (with substances, behaviors, or relationships), LGBT-related concerns, relationship stress, spirituality, career challenges, and the impact of trauma or emotional abuse.

His style is warm, interactive, thoughtful, and strongly client-centered, with an emphasis on following the areas a client feels ready to explore. Ben approaches therapy with the belief that people have the capacity to heal and grow, and he strives to be fully present so clients feel heard with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions often focus on clarifying thought patterns and self-talk, understanding emotions, noticing body-based signals, and identifying coping strategies that may have helped in the past but no longer fit today.

Ben uses talk therapy as a foundation and may incorporate occasional light hypnotherapy when both therapist and client agree it would be supportive. In his addictions work, he draws on SMART Recovery principles and is conversant with 12-Step Programs, blending skills-based tools with attention to the underlying pain and avoidance that can keep compulsions in place. He also has formal theological training across multiple religions and spiritual paths and welcomes clients from diverse belief systems, including those who identify as non-religious. Treatment planning is tailored to each individual, with therapy oriented toward personal transformation and forward movement on a client’s life path.