Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir, LCSW, LSCSW

Licensed in Missouri · 5 years in practice

Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir greets prospective clients with a calm, straightforward approach.

License and registration

LCSW, Missouri: 2020016843 · expires September 2027
LSCSW, Kansas: LSCSW 05484 · expires June 2027
NPI: 1285010421 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 5
Languages: English, Icelandic

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About Adalheidur

Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir greets prospective clients with a calm, straightforward approach. She aims to help people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or relationship concerns. Ally presents therapy as a partnership where she listens and helps clients try practical steps to feel better.

Ally works from a strengths-based perspective. She looks for practical ways to connect a person's values with everyday choices. Sessions are conversational and focused on skills you can try between meetings.

Background and approach

She uses plain language and keeps goals clear and concrete. Her background includes five years as a clinician and earlier social work experience. Ally holds LCSW and LSCSW credentials and practices in Kansas.

She offers services in English and Icelandic and draws on broad experience navigating trauma, mood concerns, parenting strain, and identity-related stress. Her approach blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies. Ally also brings mindfulness and motivational interviewing into sessions when useful.

That mix is meant to help with pain from past events, intense emotions, relationship friction, and day-to-day coping. People working with Ally can expect a collaborative process. She helps identify small, achievable steps and tracks progress across sessions.

Whether someone needs help with focus, mood swings, or rebuilding after loss, Ally aims to make therapy practical and understandable.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Adalheidur lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Trauma and abuse
Anger management
Self esteem
Depression
LGBT
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Parenting issues
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Attachment issues
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Avoidant personality
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Blended family issues
Body image
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Intellectual disability
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Mood disorders
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Phobias
Postpartum depression
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Self-harm
Self-love
Sexuality
Social anxiety and phobia
Trichotillomania
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Adalheidur names

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Online support

Approaches that translate well to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building goals together. In practice this means the therapist listens deeply, reflects feelings back, and helps clients notice strengths to use in everyday life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks down patterns of thinking and behavior into steps you can change. That makes it easy to set homework, try small experiments between sessions, and track results over time. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation and coping skills for intense feelings and relationship stress, often through short practice exercises and step-by-step skill learning.

Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the work. Ally will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep moving forward. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and full discussion of feelings. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, homework feedback, and ongoing encouragement between scheduled sessions. These options help make regular care more manageable around busy lives.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Ally commonly address?

She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.

What is her therapeutic style like?

She practices a collaborative, strengths-based style with practical skills and clear goals. Sessions mix listening with hands-on tools clients can try between meetings.

How much clinical experience does she have?

Ally has five years of experience as a clinician, plus earlier social work work that shaped her perspective on multiple systems and family dynamics.

What credentials and where does she practice?

She holds LCSW and LSCSW credentials and practices in Kansas.

Which languages are offered for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English and Icelandic.

What session formats are available?

Therapy can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How does billing and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

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