Psychotherapy
With a decade of experience in various Residential, Partial Hospitalization, and Intensive Outpatient mental health settings, Gabriella's expertise includes working with complex trauma, treating mental health conditions from a inclusive, non-pathologizing framework, medication management and utilizing creative approaches in therapy.
Based in Los Angeles, Gabriella's psychotherapy practice focuses on helping adults, adolescents, and children throughout California.
Artists and Creatives
Gabriella's work of helping clients deepen connection to their creative work is heavily informed by her background as a psychotherapist and social emotional arts facilitator, as well as by her personal experiences as an artist.
Having worked with a variety of painters, filmmakers, composers, dancers, poets, fabricators, printers, musicians, illustrators, crafters, photographers, and more, Gabriella's work builds on existing strengths and resources- utilizing a client's creativity to help them enact change and explore new dimensions of both themselves and their work.
Specializations
Neurodiversity Affirming Care
Utilizing a deep understanding of the ways in which unsupported neurological differences can lead to lasting impact on an individual's functioning and self esteem, Gabriella's work offers a educational foundation for radical self compassion.
Through education and skill building, Gabriella's work explores the ways in which clients have been impacted by their neurology and they ways in which they can be supported, accommodated, and celebrated.
Psychiatric Recovery
Through exploring individual client needs and building an understanding around unique needs and resources, this work takes a inclusive, non-pathologizing approach to mental health conditions.
Drawing on harm reduction, social emotional arts, trauma informed, and somatic approaches, clients will process experiences and emotions, process unresolved grief and trauma, and facilitate integration of experience.
Approach
With a specialization in the utilization of creative arts in therapy, Gabriella's work helps clients learn to cope in adaptive ways, heal longstanding wounds, and establish patterns for sustainable long term functioning.
By utilizing creative mediums as a means of nonverbal processing, Gabriella's work facilitates the neurobiological integration of experiences, emotions, and needs.
Her work focuses on integrating modalities such as expressive arts, harm reduction, neurobiological integration, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, trauma informed care, and social emotional learning.
Using a creative, integrative and inclusive approach to mental health, Gabriella's work offers an approach to sustained mental wellness and a space for healing that is authentic to you.
Many of my clients have been through therapy before or have struggled to maintain their mental health long term and are looking for a different approach.
Therapy with me is: authentic, directive, playful, and curious
Experienced in Treating
Artists & Creatives
Career Artists
ADHD
Autism
Anxiety
Self Harm
Suicidality
Depression
Substance Misuse
Bipolar Spectrum
Trauma
Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychiatric Recovery
Mood Disturbance
Emotional Dysregulation
Medication Management
Working with individuals, couples, adolescents and children virtually throughout California and in person in Los Angeles.