Gabrielle Schwartz

Gabrielle is a warm, collaborative, and trauma-informed therapist who is dedicated to creating a safe, supportive, and affirming therapeutic environment. She approaches therapy with empathy, curiosity, and authenticity, striving to help individuals navigate challenges with greater self-awareness, resilience, and confidence.

Gabrielle takes an integrative and holistic approach to treatment, recognizing that every individual’s experiences, relationships, and goals are unique. Her work is grounded in patient-centered therapy and draws from evidence-based modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based practices, psychodynamic therapy, and relational approaches. She balances structured therapeutic techniques with compassionate exploration, tailoring treatment to meet each patient's specific needs and personal strengths. Gabrielle has a special interest in supporting individuals navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and self-esteem concerns. She believes in the power of therapy to foster self-awareness, resilience, and meaningful change.

In addition to Gabrielle's areas of special focus, she is qualified and experienced in treating a wide range of mental health concerns, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, panic, OCD, PTSD, trauma, grief, burnout, couples and family issues, relationship difficulties, personality disorders, eating disorders, addictive disorders (including alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, and food), ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, dissociative disorders, psychotic disorders, chronic illness adjustment, sleep disorders, somatic conditions, work and career stress, identity and existential concerns, perfectionism, cultural and racial identity stress, and life transitions. Using an eclectic range of evidence-based approaches, she provides compassionate, individualized care tailored to every patient she serves.

Gabrielle has a strong foundation in mental health counseling through her master’s degree at Fordham University. She earned her undergraduate degree in Psychological and Brain Sciences from The George Washington University. Gabrielle has continued to participate in counseling and psychological research throughout her education and beyond.

Her clinical and professional experience includes serving as a Helpline Specialist with National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), where she provided crisis support, psychoeducation, and mental health resource referrals. She has also worked as a Registered Behavior Technician Intern, providing ABA-based therapeutic support to children with autism spectrum disorder, and contributed to The Erin Levitas Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to sexual assault prevention, advocacy, and education.