Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir , LCSW, LSCSW

Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir is a licensed social worker who brings a collaborative, strengths-based approach to supporting individuals and families navigating stress, anxiety, trauma, and related concerns. She holds the credentials LCSW and LSCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker - which reflect her training and licensure to provide clinical social work services.

With five years of clinical experience, she focuses on children, adolescents, and families, especially those with trauma histories. She works with teenagers, parents, caregivers, and young adults on a range of issues including parenting and blended family challenges, grief, mood disorders, ADHD, relationship and intimacy concerns, and coping with life changes. Her practice also attends to attachment and family of origin issues, body image, caregiver stress, and the needs of clients involved in alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink.

Ally favors a collaborative therapeutic relationship that centers the individual or family strengths already present and partners with clients to discover practical, creative solutions. She draws from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapy techniques, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing to tailor care to each person. She provides services in English and Icelandic and approaches each case with empathy, cultural sensitivity, and a focus on real-world coping strategies.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Client-centered therapy emphasizes collaboration and respect for each person's unique perspective. It focuses on building a trusting relationship, helping clients explore their values and strengths, and supporting self-directed growth - useful for relationship, family, and identity concerns.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It offers practical strategies for managing anxiety, depression, mood swings, and stress by teaching skills for problem solving and emotional regulation.

Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, combines acceptance and change strategies and teaches concrete skills in distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. It can be especially helpful for intense emotions, relationship difficulties, and coping with overwhelming stressors.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Licensed professionals will work with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and then tailor a mix of methods that fit the client's situation.

Online therapy makes those approaches more accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options offer scheduling flexibility, easier access from home or work, and multiple ways to engage with therapy so clients can find what works best for their life and comfort level.