Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir, LCSW, LSCSW

Adalheidur (Ally) Dagbjartsdottir is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and also holds an LSCSW, practicing in Kansas with five years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Icelandic. Her work focuses on issues such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, depression, LGBT concerns, relationship and family difficulties, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

Ally uses straightforward, practical approaches in sessions. She emphasizes partnership and a strengths perspective. That means she helps people notice what already works for them and build on those abilities. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with simple tools people can try between meetings.

In practice she draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She often combines these to help with emotion regulation, communication, and problem-solving. For trauma-related work she pays attention to attachment and family-of-origin patterns while keeping interventions concrete.

Her background includes prior work with children and families and ten years in therapy roles within that broader 15-year social work career. That experience informs how she supports parents and young people, and how she frames problems in everyday life rather than only as diagnoses.

Ally aims to make therapy fit into busy schedules. She asks practical questions about what is most pressing and what small changes would make life easier. People who want clear steps and a collaborative, down-to-earth clinician may find this style helpful.

How Ally uses common approaches in online work