MEET GABRIELLE
Hi, I’m Gabrielle — a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a passion for supporting women through pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and motherhood.
After becoming a mother myself, it became impossible to ignore the gaps in support women face during this transition. One of the most significant is how rarely motherhood is normalized for what it truly is: a profound physical, emotional, relational, and identity shift.
Just weeks after giving birth, many women are handed a questionnaire asking whether “things have been getting on top of them.” And while mental health matters deeply, so many mothers are left feeling unseen in the complexity of what they’re actually carrying. Exhaustion. Overwhelm. Isolation. Identity loss. Mental load. Pressure to do it all while questioning whether they’re doing any of it “right.”
Too often, women walk away believing something is wrong with them, when what they truly need is deeper support, community, and space to be held.
For many women, this need begins long before postpartum.
Birth itself has become increasingly medicalized, rushed, and fear-based in our culture. I hold a deep respect for physiological birth and consider myself a homebirth advocate, while fully honoring each woman’s autonomy and individual choices wherever and however birth unfolds. My passion lies in gently challenging the narratives that teach women to distrust themselves and their bodies, and instead creating space for women to reconnect with their intuition, inner wisdom, and sense of agency.
Somewhere along the way, many women lost the village that once held mothers through these seasons. Where women once looked to the mothers before them, many are now encouraged to outsource their instincts, override their needs, and carry the weight of motherhood largely alone.
The result is often burnout, disconnection, anxiety, guilt, and the feeling that you’ve somehow lost yourself in the process.
But it doesn’t have to stay that way.
I believe women need more than coping skills. They need spaces where they feel safe enough to tell the truth about what they’re carrying without fear of judgment or shame.
Together, we create room for your vulnerabilities, your grief, your identity shifts, your overwhelm, and the parts of you that may have been pushed aside while caring for everyone else.
My hope is that therapy becomes a space where you feel seen, supported, empowered, and gently guided back home to yourself.
Gabrielle Monreal
MSW, LCSW
“Becoming a mother leaves no woman as it found her. It unravels and rebuilds her. It cracks her open, takes her to her edges. It’s both beautiful and brutal, often at the same time”.
-Nikki McCahon