Hi, I’m Gabe.
I’m a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (CA, LPCC #12212) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (WA, LMHC #61144397) based in San Francisco, CA.
I received my Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from San Francisco State University and my Masters of Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Psychology & Theology.
I completed my clinical internship at Westminster Community Clinic in Bellevue, WA and at Center for Human Services (CHS) in Edmonds, WA where I worked with children, teens and families, as well as adult individuals. After completing my hours toward licensure in Washington, I relocated back down to my home state of California. I’m a member of the California Association for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors and the American Counseling Association.
A word about therapy
A core goal of psychotherapy is to enable you to engage in more meaningful relationships with people that you choose, who will support, encourage, and love you well. This involves the nature of who you choose to be in relationship with and how it is that you express your needs and desires in those relationships.
I work with people to help them confront, move through, and make peace with the inevitable suffering that comes with being human.
By unlocking hidden desires and finding new ways of relating to others, my hope is that you would begin to experience a broader range of emotions, reduced levels of shame, fear, and anxiety, and a heightened capacity to think about the past in new ways while reinvigorating your imagination for the future. I would also like you to have an increased capacity to walk through this life with integrity to who you are, with love and patience for others.
I work primarily from psychodynamic and attachment-based therapies but also draw from many other therapeutic modalities, including existential therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, psychoanalytic theory, lifespan integration and family systems.
The work I do is also collaborative. Together we will work to achieve what you’re looking for in your therapy.
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