Gabriele Hoog

Gabriele Hoog is a licensed clinical social worker in Missouri with 20 years of clinical experience, and she offers a calm, validating space for people who are ready to seek help. She often goes by Gabby and creates an atmosphere where clients can feel heard and safe while exploring difficult emotions, trauma, and life stressors.

She supports people living with depression, anxiety, trauma, and substance use concerns, and she also works with relationship issues, anger management, and self-esteem challenges. While processing emotions is an important part of therapy, she emphasizes building practical skills to manage intense feelings and to shift long-standing thoughts and behaviors.

Gabriele takes a strengths-based, solutions-focused approach that empowers each person to identify and build on their own resources. She collaborates with clients to create individualized treatment plans and uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients see how thoughts, emotions, and actions interact. As clients begin to challenge unhelpful thinking patterns, she offers guidance and encouragement to replace reactive responses with chosen actions.

She also teaches distress tolerance techniques drawn from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, including mindfulness practices, grounding exercises, and breathing strategies to help manage overwhelming emotions. Her work extends beyond mental and emotional health to include overall wellness - such as attention to diet, exercise, sleep, and self-care - with the goal of restoring greater balance and peace to clients' lives.