California Virtual Therapy

Helping Fixers and Approval Seekers Release Control

Am I the therapist for you?

If you’ve spent your life trying to fix, manage, and control everything around you—while quietly feeling stuck in guilt, shame, and overwhelm—you’re not alone. And you don’t have to stay in this cycle.

Here’s the truth:


The constant need to “fix” is exhausting. The pressure to be everything to everyone leaves no space for you. And trying to control every outcome doesn’t actually make you feel safe—it keeps you in a constant state of stress.

What if you didn’t have to live this way anymore?

I’m Gabrielle Gonzalez, a somatic therapist specializing in helping women who’ve been conditioned to over-function, over-give, and ignore their own needs. Together, we’ll explore the deeper roots of your patterns (yes, even the ones you feel “should” be gone by now) and shift toward healing that prioritizes your body, your boundaries, and your joy.

Here’s What You Can Expect:

  • Compassionate, No-BS Support: I meet you where you are with warmth and honesty, blending empathy with real tools to move forward.

  • Body-Based Healing: Real change happens when the body and mind are in sync. We’ll focus on nervous system regulation, somatic practices, and emotional processing to help you break free from the chronic stress state.

  • Permission to Be You: Healing isn’t about being “better.” It’s about coming home to yourself, embracing your worth, and letting go of the pressure to be perfect.

Who I Work With

  • Women who feel responsible for everyone else’s emotions and problems

  • Chronic people-pleasers who struggle with guilt or anxiety around saying “no”

  • Overachievers and perfectionists battling shame, frustration, or burnout

  • Anyone ready to stop controlling and start connecting—to themselves and their lives

You deserve to feel at ease in your body, grounded in your relationships, and free to show up as your true self.

Let’s Get Started

Ready to take the first step toward your healing? Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to explore how we can work together. Whether through 1:1 therapy, workshops, or online resources, I’m here to help you create a life where you are no longer an afterthought.


Your healing starts here. You don’t have to do it alone.

The lasting impact of emotional wounds:

Emotional wounds, especially for people pleasers and perfectionists, can shape the way you navigate relationships; whether it's with a partner, friends, family, or at work. These wounds often create anxious attachments, making it hard not to absorb the emotions of those around you.

You might find yourself walking on eggshells to avoid conflict, struggling to start difficult conversations, or feeling overwhelmed when your needs are not being met. The weight of these unhealed wounds can lead to chronic stress, leaving you feeling stuck in patterns of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and overthinking.

Over time, the stress and trauma of carrying these emotional burdens can manifest physically. Your body may develop chronic conditions like tension headaches, digestive issues, or constant fatigue, all linked to the anxiety living beneath the surface.

Feeling stuck in "freeze" mode- unable to take action, make decisions, or move forward—becomes an exhausting cycle. These challenges can make it hard to stay present, be authentic in relationships, and truly feel at ease in your own skin. But with awareness and healing, it's possible to break these patterns, reclaim your confidence, and create a more balanced, fulfilling life.

I take a mindfulness and somatic (body based) approach to therapy; otherwise known as a “bottom up” approach. These approaches target the lower regions of the brain as an avenue for re-structuring the belief system and re-organizing your relationship to self.

I utilize parts work to help you explore the ways in which you carry and operate from emotional wounds. We work to unburden the parts of you that adapted to trauma so that you can connect to your truest, most authentic essence.

I integrate creative and playful interventions including dance, somatic affirmations, intuitive movement, visualization and art.  Through use of playful, creative and movement related interventions, we aim to heal the relationship between your inner child and YOU.

You hold the wisdom

You hold the wisdom

To me, the most important thing we do in therapy is build a safe and trusting relationship; one where you can be entirely yourself, you can sob your snot out, you can cuss and yell, you can show up and sit silently, staring at the screen until I say something, you can just be, knowing that I have no expectations of you other than for you to be true to yourself.

I’m not here to tell you what to do, give you advice, or correct your patterns of behavior (though I will most certainly call them out). I am here to help you feel so safe, so supported, so heard, and so understood, that you can successful tap into your own wisdom. Because it’s all there, just hidden beneath the hurt.