Gail Fiore, M.A., M.S.W., B.T.T.I., is the owner and founder of The Winning Focus LLC. She is a litigation survivor and clinical expert who helps attorneys and other professionals survive litigation stress through confidential, performance-focused coaching. With energy, insight, dedication, and sensitivity, she utilizes a wide variety of approaches stemming from her extensive training in coaching, psychology, clinical social work, and philosophy, as well as drawing on wisdom from her life experience.

Through her experience, Gail recognized that almost all litigation cases have a certain level of stress, emotional upheaval, and anxiety. As a result, she established The Winning Focus LLC™ in 2012. Originally established to emotionally stabilize defendants and plaintiffs before, during, and after the litigation, the protocol has since been expanded to specifically help attorneys.

She has 40+ years of experience in the fields of mental health and business. Before founding The Winning Focus, she owned and ran an employee assistance program in private practice for many years. Her clients include USAir, National Steel, National Intergroup, Genix Corporation, and Point Park University, among others.

She earned a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Pittsburgh, a Master of Arts in Philosophy, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Philosophy from Duquesne University.

Her Story

In 2008, Gail was named in a lawsuit. She entered therapy with some of the most credentialed practitioners in Pittsburgh. They were skilled. They were caring. They could not touch the anxiety. All they could offer was consolation. Which made things worse – because she left every session thinking: if the best they can give me is “don’t let it get you down,” then something genuinely bad must be coming.

One night she stopped calling family and friends. Instead, she Googled “psychological symptoms of being in a lawsuit.” What came back described almost everything she was experiencing. She kept searching and found account after account of professionals describing the same thing. But nowhere was there any means of effectively resolving it. No one had designed a specific protocol, program, or technique to help cope with litigation stress.

As a result of the unique protocol Gail developed and utilized, specific apprehensions relevant to the case were resolved, and her anxiety and depression dissipated.  

Confidential. Non-reportable. No paper trail.