Gabrielle Panzo
Therapist focused on relationships and coping
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Gabrielle
Gabrielle Panzo is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) who aims to make therapy feel like a place to finally exhale. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can be honest and begin to sort through stress, relationship strain, or life transitions. Her style is warm and straightforward, focused on understanding what’s happening now and where a person wants to go next.
Gabrielle uses practical methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and emotionally focused approaches to address values, connection, and emotional responses. Sessions emphasize short-term skills and longer-term insight depending on each person’s goals. She has five years of clinical experience and works with adults, couples, and families on issues like anxiety, depression, ADHD, substance use, trauma, and major life changes.
Parenting, intimacy and relationship challenges, sleep difficulties, and work stress are also common topics she supports people through. Gabrielle pays attention to attachment, codependency, and communication patterns that affect close relationships. Gabrielle is based in Connecticut and holds the LPC credential.
She offers therapy in English and does not take international clients. Her approach is collaborative and individualized, with an emphasis on listening, remembering what matters to each person, and celebrating progress. If someone is unsure about starting therapy, Gabrielle encourages a first step of a short matching process to see if the fit feels right and to plan next steps together.
How therapy approaches guide online work
Gabrielle commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. ACT focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Gabrielle works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. She checks in regularly and adjusts tools and pacing so the work feels relevant and doable.
The biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm current online options before booking. Many people find that remote work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or avoid travel time. Online sessions can also let someone maintain continuity of care during moves or changes in routine. A conversation at the start will clarify how sessions will be run and what will best fit each person’s practical needs and goals.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Gabrielle
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point