Gabriel Kajeckas

Gabriel Kajeckas is a licensed clinical social worker with more than three decades of practice helping people manage stress and anxiety. He works with adults on relationship concerns, family conflict, grief, and the effects of trauma from earlier life. He also brings long experience addressing addictive behaviors and eating or sleeping struggles.

Gabriel draws on practical methods to help people make changes they can use day to day. He listens for patterns that come from family of origin issues and helps clients notice how those patterns shape current choices. He supports people working through codependency, control issues, impulsivity, and process or substance addictions.

Clients often want straightforward ways to handle worry, rebuild trust, or face grief and end-of-life questions. Gabriel helps people set small goals, practice new skills, and try different ways of responding. He uses approaches that focus on relationships, thoughts and behaviors, motivation for change, and trauma recovery.

Over 32 years Gabriel has worked with people coping with cancer, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and compassion fatigue. He emphasizes practical steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

He is licensed in Virginia as an LCSW and holds LCSW-C in Maryland. Sessions are conducted in English and Gabriel is open to working with international clients; confirm current session options when booking.

Approaches that translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and feelings. It helps people notice attachment patterns and try different ways of connecting and responding in close relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact; it gives concrete tools to reduce anxiety, change unhelpful habits, and manage cravings or compulsive behaviors. Motivational Interviewing centers on a person’s own goals and strengths to build motivation for change and is often useful for substance or process addictions and ambivalence about treatment.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gabriel will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and recommend approaches that fit. He adapts strategies to the pace a person wants and checks in to see what is helping as therapy progresses.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find remote sessions easier to fit into a busy day, to connect when travel is difficult, or to have a shorter check-in when they need ongoing support between in-person appointments. Online sessions can make it simpler to follow through on skills practice, attend regular meetings during treatment for addiction or grief, and keep therapy consistent while life is changing.