Gala Oliver-Singh
Compassionate counselor guiding growth and change
LPC Louisiana
- Experience
- 22 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, LGBT, Relationship
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Gala
Gala Oliver-Singh is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of clinical experience helping people navigate major life transitions and emotional challenges. She began her path to counseling after her own personal growth work and completed a master's degree in Counseling and Guidance from Louisiana Tech University.
Background and approach
Over two decades she has worked across outpatient clinics, community settings, schools, and domestic violence services, offering individual, family, and group support while focusing on practical change and resilience. Her practice emphasizes a client-centered, relational approach that blends collaborative conversation with action-oriented techniques.
Gala draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered principles to help clients identify unhelpful patterns, develop healthier behaviors, and build new coping strategies.
She has particular experience with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related concerns, parenting and blended family issues, communication problems, LGBT and identity-related matters, relationship and family dynamics, self esteem, career concerns, and adapting to life changes. Based in Louisiana, she brings a commitment to empowerment and to supporting historically marginalized groups through culturally informed care.
Gala aims to create a nonjudgmental environment where practical steps toward change are developed collaboratively and applied to everyday life.
Online Approaches and Practical Access to Care
Gala uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients recognize and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors; this approach is often applied to anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life transitions. She also relies on Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on creating a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship and helping clients explore their values and goals at their own pace.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Gala works with clients to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and then adapts techniques so the plan feels practical and personally meaningful rather than prescriptive. The aim is to find methods that fit the client's life and support steady progress.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for people balancing work, family, or other commitments. These options make it simpler to attend sessions from different locations, maintain continuity during busy periods, and use brief check-ins or longer conversations as needed to support therapeutic progress.
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Experience
22+ years
Licensed
Louisiana
Languages
English