About Adalheidur
Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir, LCSW, LSCSW greets clients with a calm, supportive presence. She aims to help people manage anxiety, phobias, stress, and the daily strains of parenting and relationships. Ally focuses on practical steps you can try between sessions and listens for what matters most to you.
Ally approaches therapy as a collaboration. She uses client-centered work to focus on each person's strengths and preferences. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness practices offer tools for managing intense emotion and building steadier routines. She brings five years of therapist experience and earlier social work roles that give her a broad view of life stressors. Ally has helped people facing trauma, grief, ADHD challenges, body image concerns, and relationship difficulties.
Her background includes work with parenting and blended family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and attachment concerns. Sessions are offered from Kansas and are available in English and Icelandic. Ally offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Costs vary by location and are billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist's availability. Ally aims to create a safe, respectful space where people can try new ways of coping and move toward clearer goals.
How Ally Uses Practical Approaches Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on your goals and strengths and means sessions are shaped around what matters to you. It helps when someone needs a therapist who listens first and then helps them try ideas that feel doable.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions keep problems going. It includes simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and practice new behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, phobias, and mood concerns.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches skills for tolerating distress, managing strong emotions, and improving communication. Those skills can be helpful for people who feel overwhelmed or struggle with intense reactions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Ally collaborates with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts tools over time so the plan matches what the person wants to change.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone works well when bandwidth is lower or a hands-free check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, school, parenting, and other life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- 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
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