You don’t have to arrive at therapy ready to share everything or knowing exactly what needs to change.
Gabriel offers a warm, conversational space where you can explore what’s happening at your own pace—while building greater understanding, practical skills, and new ways of relating to yourself and others.
Gabriel Aboutboul, Registered Psychotherapist
DBT & Trauma-Informed Therapist
You’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand why certain relationships, emotions, or experiences seem to affect you so deeply.
Maybe you find yourself caught in familiar patterns with other people, struggling with emotional reactions that feel difficult to control, or questioning your own needs after experiences of being dismissed or invalidated.
You may be navigating BPD, complex trauma, attachment difficulties, anxiety, depression, or relationship challenges—and want more than simply learning how to make uncomfortable feelings go away.
Gabriel works especially well with people who are curious about themselves and open to exploring new ways of thinking, feeling, and relating. Therapy can include practical tools when you need them, while also making space to understand what’s happening underneath.
With Gabriel, you don’t need to fit into one particular way of doing therapy. The work can adapt to where you are, what you’re ready for, and what feels most helpful along the way.
Therapy with Gabriel is warm, conversational, and collaborative. You don’t need to arrive knowing exactly what to talk about or feeling ready to share everything at once. There’s room to begin wherever you are and let the relationship develop over time.
Gabriel balances curiosity and compassion with practical support. Some sessions might involve exploring emotions, relationships, or patterns that keep showing up in your life. Others may focus more on building skills, finding a different perspective, or working through something happening right now.
He also believes therapy shouldn’t feel like something being done to you. You’re encouraged to share what’s working, what isn’t, and what you need as the work evolves.
Most importantly, Gabriel wants therapy to feel like a place where you can be understood without judgment while still being supported in making meaningful changes.
It’s okay to begin only by dipping your toes.
Gabriel draws from DBT, attachment-based therapy, mindfulness, somatic approaches, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), but he doesn’t believe therapy needs to follow one particular formula.
Together, you might build practical skills for navigating intense emotions, explore how past experiences influence your relationships today, or slow things down and notice what’s happening beneath the surface.
Sometimes that means learning new ways to respond when emotions feel overwhelming. Other times, it might mean getting curious about a familiar pattern, understanding different parts of yourself, or exploring what your mind and body may be trying to communicate.
The goal isn’t to fit you into an approach—it’s to find approaches that fit you. Therapy can evolve as your needs, understanding, and goals evolve too.
The ways we connect with others are often shaped by experiences that began long before our current relationships. When you’ve experienced rejection, inconsistency, or chronic invalidation, it can become difficult to trust your needs, communicate what you’re feeling, or feel secure in your relationships.
With Gabriel, therapy can be a place to slow those patterns down and understand them with curiosity rather than judgment. Together, you might explore where certain reactions come from, what happens when you feel disconnected or misunderstood, and how past experiences may still be influencing the way you relate to yourself and others today.
This isn’t about deciding who is right or wrong. It’s about developing a deeper understanding of your emotions, needs, boundaries, and attachment patterns so you can begin making choices that feel more intentional.
Understanding where a pattern comes from can be the first step toward choosing what you want to do with it.
Outside of the therapy room, Gabriel values creativity, connection, and finding ways to stay grounded and present.
He enjoys writing, reading, meditation, and exploring ideas that help him better understand himself and the world around him. Music is also a big part of his life—you might find him at a music festival, dancing, or simply enjoying the energy that comes from sharing an experience with others.
Relationships and community are important to Gabriel, and he values making time for the people in his life while continuing to learn, reflect, and grow himself.
You don’t need to know exactly what you want to work on or whether Savannah is the right therapist for you before reaching out.
A free consultation is simply a chance to meet, ask questions, talk a little about what you’re looking for, and see how it feels to connect.
