Gloria Whitcraft
Compassionate, strengths-based therapy for relationships and healing
LMFT Indiana
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Family, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Gloria
Gloria Whitcraft is an Indiana-based licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of clinical experience who focuses on relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, and practical coaching to help clients move toward healthier patterns.
Background and approach
She frames therapy around each person's strengths and perspectives, treating clients as experts in their own stories while offering structure and guidance to address persistent challenges like communication problems, caregiver stress, or feelings of isolation. Her collaborative stance emphasizes courage and gradual change, working alongside clients to identify realistic goals and small steps that build momentum.
Gloria integrates evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral approaches and client-centered techniques, along with elements of the Gottman Method for relationship work, tailoring interventions to the issues presented. She aims to empower people to regain balance after difficult life events and to develop tools for improved mood, connection, and daily functioning.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Relationship and Trauma Work
Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and collaboration, offering space for clients to lead the conversation while the therapist reflects and supports personal insight; this approach is helpful for processing difficult emotions and strengthening self-understanding. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and developing practical skills to change them, which can help with depression, anxiety, and many daily stressors. The Gottman Method provides structured tools and exercises for improving communication and rebuilding trust in relationships, useful when couples or partners want concrete strategies to resolve conflict.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works together with each client to determine which methods align with their goals and preferences. That collaborative exploration may blend elements from different models so treatment fits the client's needs rather than expecting a single method to solve every concern.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity when life is unpredictable. These formats allow licensed professionals to provide consistent support, practice skills between meetings, and adapt the pace and tools of therapy to how a client prefers to engage.
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Areas of expertise
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Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
20+ years
Licensed
Indiana
Languages
English