Gabriela Breton, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Throughout my career, I have worked as a therapist helping individuals, couples, families, and children in private practice, profit, and non-profit organizations for over 25 years. I have also worked with San Mateo County for 10 years with the Youth Mental Health department. There, I have helped youth and their families overcome depression, anxiety, trauma, and school-related issues. I developed a curriculum in mindfulness and compassion, coping skills, and ran a group for over 6 years. I have extensive experience supporting families with parenting challenges, women undergoing infertility, pre- and postpartum depression, depression, anxiety, ADHD, OCD, divorce, self-harm, and self-worth. I am certified in DBT, CBT, mindfulness, trauma, extensive training in EMDR, and ketamine assisted psychotherapy. I have supervised interns from a variety of schools, and I enjoy and value the process of mentoring them in their journeys. I am bi-cultural and bi-lingual in Spanish and have worked with many clients of different cultural backgrounds. In addition, I teach trauma-sensitive yoga and help people relate to their bodies in a healthier and kinder way.    In the process of serving clients, I allow the fullness of my heart and passion to enter the therapeutic relationship. In doing so, I have constantly been surprised that no matter how hard the challenges and situations are, the strengths and wisdom each client is able to draw from their own experience are incredible.

I have a deep passion for working with clients in a holistic way. I deepened my studies by getting a postgraduate certification in Mindfulness and Compassion for Psychotherapists. I have extensively trained in Ketamine assisted psychotherapy, which is a holistic way to help clients have more frequent breakthroughs and sustained improvement in symptoms. (Call to see if you qualify and for more information.)