Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir
Supportive family and parenting therapist
- Credentials
- LCSW, LSCSW
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English, Icelandic
- Format
- Online sessions
About Adalheidur
Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns. She meets people where they are and partners with them to find practical ways to manage stress, parenting challenges, anxiety, and relationship struggles. Ally uses straightforward language and aims to make appointments feel manageable for busy families.
Ally holds LCSW and LSCSW credentials and has five years of experience as a therapist. She brings prior social work experience and a strengths-based outlook to sessions.
Background and approach
That perspective helps highlight what is already working in a family and build from there. Her approach blends client-centered work with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques when they fit a family’s needs.
Sessions focus on skills parents and children can try between meetings and on clearer communication at home. Ally has worked with parenting concerns, grief, trauma, ADHD, mood issues, and a wide range of family dynamics. She also addresses attachment, blended family questions, body image, caregiver stress, and communication problems.
She is comfortable talking about intimacy-related topics and nontraditional sexual cultures when relevant. Sessions are available in English and Icelandic and offered to people based in Kansas. Practical steps for starting therapy are spelled out so families can move forward without extra confusion.
How Ally’s approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful partnership so parents and children feel heard and understood; it helps families set goals and find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and handle parenting stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication that can be useful in high-conflict family situations.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each family to pick approaches that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy households. Video calls let families meet face to face without travel, phone sessions work when screens are difficult, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins and practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school schedules, work, and caregiving routines while staying focused on practical skills and communication.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English, Icelandic
Next step
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