Laura Gabriel

I focus on clients ages 4 and up utilizing directive play therapy to identify, understand, regulate, and cope with impulsivity and their emotions through life’s ever-changing transitions. I have a drive for instilling self-compassion in my clients of all ages, while guiding them in gaining self-acceptance and coping skills to build resiliency, empathy, and strength. I am also trained through the Grief Recovery Institute in pet loss offering services to help guide clients through the agonizing weight of end-of-life and euthanasia guilt, traumatic shock of sudden or unexpected pet loss, the overwhelming silence and disrupted routines of an empty home, and the anticipatory grief while caring for a terminally ill pet. While I consistently maintain a personalized application of interventions reflective of each client’s needs and skills through individualized techniques, my personal therapeutic approach is one of client and counselor collaboration revolving around curiosity, vulnerability, and discovery on both parts. Guided by compassionate inquiry I don’t just hold space for my clients, I tend to it, trying to understand what part is being protected without forcing action or change while helping clients reconnect with themselves in spaces they’ve gone quiet. Through a depth-oriented humanistic and relational therapy approach, I provide healing through connection. Allow me to share my experience and education in hopes of walking alongside you down a path of growth, awareness, and self-compassion.