Honor your emotions, story, and innate capacity for reconnection and change.

Become Who You Already Are

Rooted in presence and attunement, this work invites a return to the body, to emotional truth, and to a more grounded and authentic way of being. This is a space that understands human patterns not as pathology but as creative adaptations to unmet needs, as well as to environments and conditioning that may have caused profound harm. The mission of Alchemy Counseling is gentle and intentional: to help people peel back layers of protection with compassion, to come into loving relationship with the pain carried beneath the surface, and to reconnect with the wholeness that has always been present. This work is an ongoing invitation to notice, to feel, and to be held. Through attuned presence, somatic awareness, and relational care, this space supports deeper integration within the self and a healing that extends beyond the individual.

“We’re all just walking each other home.”

-- Ram Dass

Hi, I’m Gabby-

Founder, Licensed Mental Health Counselor

For more than a decade I've walked beside people in the tender, difficult work of healing, and over time my practice has become an invitation to return to the body as a wise and honest companion on the road to change.

I listen for the stories lived in muscles and breath, for the quiet languages of sensation that point toward what wants to be known and alchemized.

I’m drawn to ways of working that marry meaning with embodiment: insight held gently alongside the practice of slowing, listening, and orienting to felt experience.

My hope is to accompany you toward more conscious, liberated ways of being. Ones that feel true in your body, mind, and heart.

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More About My Journey

I came to this work through professional training, and through my own messy, human path.

For years I lived from my head. Thinking, solving, doing. Always trying to plan my way to peace.

Then the stress grew louder than my life, and my relationships and my body paid the cost.

Polyvagal Theory and somatic work showed me that the body isn’t just where symptoms live. It’s where the answers are. But I was still trying to master healing rather than live it. I didn’t need more technique. I needed relationship.

I found it in Cha Dao, the Way of Tea.

Gathering water, warming the kettle, watching the steam rise. What began as one more practice became a relationship with the plant, with the earth, and with a compassion I didn’t have to earn, offered again and again, cup after cup.

Tea taught me to sit with a feeling without needing to fix it. To trust instead of control. To love instead of fear.

That steadiness is what I bring into the room with every client: a grounded, compassionate presence, and the knowing that healing happens in relationship, not in isolation.

Interested in cultivating a relationship with Tea?

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Individual Mental Health Counseling With Me

Healing lives in the body and in relationship. It grows as we gain space from the parts of us that learned to protect us, and build intimacy with what needs our care.

I offer individual counseling that weaves together somatic and relational approaches, drawing primarily from Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Focusing.

Our work blends mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and experiential practice, always moving toward insight and aligned action.

I specialize in trauma and stress, through an anti-oppressive lens that honors your inherent creativity, resourcefulness, and wholeness, even when systems and relationships have made that truth hard to feel.

Together, we gently loosen old survival patterns, help the nervous system resettle, and make room for safety, presence, and freer ways of relating to take root.

Your Questions, Answered

How do I know if this work is the right fit for me?

Do you accept health insurance?

What are your rates?

Yes. For my mental health counseling services I am partnered with Blue Cross Blue Shield, Anthem, and Aetna. I can also provide itemized invoices for out-of-network reimbursement—check with your insurance to see if you may qualify.

What can I expect in our first session?

Mental Health Counseling: $150

Clinical Consultation and Supervision: $150

Meditation and Integration: $100

I provide a sliding scale on a case by case basis for mental health clients.

Yes. Following each session or program milestone, we generate a detailed invoice that outlines services rendered, codes when applicable, and payment records, making it easier for you to pursue reimbursement with your insurer or health savings account.

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What kind of experiences or challenges do you support?