Gabriel Kajeckas
Calm guidance for families and addictive issues
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C, LCSW
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia, Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Gabriel
Gabriel Kajeckas is a licensed social worker and medical doctor who has spent over three decades guiding people through stress, anxiety, addiction, and relationship strain. He brings practical experience from Virginia and Maryland to sessions. Gabriel aims to help parents and families find clearer ways to manage conflicts and rebuild trust at home.
He prefers direct, steady conversations that focus on small, usable steps. Gabriel often looks at how early family patterns shape current behavior and relationships.
Background and approach
He helps clients notice strengths they already have and use those to handle day-to-day challenges. Gabriel draws on approaches such as attachment work and cognitive behavioral techniques. These methods help people understand emotions, shift unhelpful thoughts, and practice different ways of relating.
He also uses motivational interviewing to support change when addiction or avoidance is present. Over 32 years of practice, Gabriel has worked with many people dealing with grief, sleep and eating issues, compassion fatigue, and life-purpose questions. He also supports those affected by cancer, hospice concerns, codependency, and separation.
His experience includes treating a range of process and substance addictions. Sessions are held in English and he accepts international clients. Gabriel encourages a collaborative process where goals are set together and progress is reviewed along the way.
Parents and family members who want steady, experience-based guidance may find his approach helpful.
Using focused therapy approaches online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can help parents and family members notice patterns and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or compulsive habits. It’s useful for stress, sleep and eating problems, and many addictive behaviors.The right approach is often found together. Gabriel will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest techniques that fit. He encourages a collaborative plan and adjusts methods over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That makes it easier to fit sessions around family schedules, medical care, or work. It also allows people in different locations to keep steady contact and practice skills between meetings.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Maryland
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Gabriel
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