Therapy can be useful for many things.

Do you avoid doing things because they make you feel uncomfortable? Are you healing from illness? Do you want to improve as an artist, musician, athlete? Are you feeling unnecessary shame, fear, or guilt? Struggling to find or maintain relationships? Sex life not a source of joy and renewal?

I’ve developed a gentle method I call Natural State Restoration that transforms deep internal structures which harm us into deep systems that heal us. Through this method, we can learn to spend most of our time in that part of ourselves built entirely of loving interactions.

I also offer Somatic Experiencing, modified DBT, Wellness, Family/Couples Therapy, and am GBLTPQ-2S and kink-friendly. My methods work well via telehealth, so we may work together even if you live afar or prefer to socially distance.

Natural State Restoration is about restoring abilities we were born with and learning to use the right tool for the job. Even in the chaos of life we have the ability to be calm and to be secure in ourselves. To me, talk therapy is of limited use because our brains (our everyday minds) do a lousy job processing emotions. Our minds tend to replay negative messages which undermine us, but when we privilege our loving states, our emotions become allies that help us fully live life. It sounds a bit “woo-woo,” but it works.

My office is in a private room in my home; however, family life–dog and young adult–may sometimes be heard in the background.

My practice is based on the fact that colonialism is damaging, even to dominant and dominating groups.*  My therapy is dedicated to excising all internalized oppression. I express my gratitude to Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (The Squamish Nation) on whose unceded territory my home and office are located.

Call Gabriel for a free phone consultation now – (604) 861-7890 or Email now

*Colonialism separates colonizers from the richness of life; exploitation is inherently damaging, requiring of the exploiter deliberate blindness to pain and suffering.