Benjamin 'Ben' Galloso, LICSW, LCSW

Benjamin 'Ben' Galloso is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 14 years of practice to sessions. He uses a warm, client-centered style and offers a mix of talking therapy and occasional light hypnotherapy when it fits the person's needs. Ben speaks English and Spanish and works with people dealing with addictions, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and related concerns.

Ben focuses on practical, moment-to-moment work in sessions. He listens for how thoughts, words, and body sensations connect to patterns that keep a person stuck. He helps people notice coping strategies that once helped but no longer serve them, and he supports creating new ways of responding.

For addictions and compulsive behaviors he combines elements of SMART Recovery with approaches drawn from cognitive and emotion-focused work. This includes looking at underlying hurts and avoidance so someone can become more present and move toward recovery on their own terms. He is also familiar with 12-Step programs and integrates what is useful for each person.

Ben has formal theological study across a range of faiths and spiritual paths and respects each person’s own beliefs. He tailors session dialogue and treatment planning to individual needs, including topics like sex culture and alternative practices when those are part of someone’s life.

Sessions emphasize collaboration and a belief that people have the capacity to heal themselves. Ben supports people through life changes, grief, career stress, identity questions, and long-standing patterns such as codependency and attachment wounds.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters most to the person. It helps when someone needs space to be heard and to make their own decisions about change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and gives clear, practical ways to try different responses for anxiety, depression, or addictive patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift key emotions that keep them stuck in repeating relationship or attachment patterns.

Picking the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That plan can change over time based on what is most helpful for the person’s recovery and day-to-day life.

Confirm the session formats available before booking since specific formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow for follow-up conversations between appointments. They also make it simpler to keep regular momentum while working on addictions, coping skills, or emotional processing without promising a particular service type.