INNER SANCTUARY
Healing that starts with feeling safe. IFS and EMDR therapy to help you break free from trauma, anxiety, and doom-spiraling, and reconnect with the real you.
In-person therapy sessions for individuals, young adults and teens in Irvine, CA; virtual anywhere in California.
Go from feeling disconnected from your emotions, replaying the same fight with your partner over and over, or shutting down when things get too overwhelming…
…to trusting yourself, feeling your feelings without drowning in them, and showing up in your relationships as the real you.
Using EMDR and IFS, I’ll help you stop over-functioning just to feel “okay.”
Together, we’ll unburden the parts of you that have been working so hard, and create an inner sanctuary that feels like peace, not performance.
I’ve spent the last 5+ years as a specialist in helping people untangle from their trauma.
Meet Gabriela
Hey, I’m Gabriela Fountain. LMFT, parts whisperer, and trauma therapist for teens and adults who are done pretending everything’s fine when it’s clearly not.
I’m not your sister, but I might feel like one (if your sister had EMDR training and didn’t send guilt-trip texts).
Clients say I’m the one they can fall apart in front of and laugh with in the same breath. I’ll help you make sense of the chaos inside your head and slowly, steadily, you’ll build something solid, calm, and unshakably you.
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LMFT #132782
California State University- Bachelor degree in Psychology
Pepperdine University - MA in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy
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Limited spots available as I keep a small case load to ensure quality.
Why wait? What happens if nothing changes …
→ You keep blowing up or shutting down in relationships, then hating yourself for it.
→ That anxious loop never stops spinning—no matter how many to-do lists or self-help podcasts you consume.
→ You keep pretending everything’s fine, even when your insides are screaming.
→ You avoid looking inward because you’re afraid of what you’ll find.
→ You waste energy managing the chaos instead of actually healing the sh*t causing it.
A few examples of “ah-ha” moments that might come out of our 1:1s …
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→ You can’t meditate your way out of a panic spiral. But EMDR can help clear the root cause.
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→ “A part of me wants to ghost my partner, and a part of me wants to marry them”—yep, we can work with that.
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→ You’ll finally understand why you keep people at arm’s length. Even the ones who love you.
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→ That “shut down and scroll for three hours” part of you? It’s not lazy—it’s protecting you.
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→ Therapy with me feels like sitting with a big sister who cusses, cares, and calls you in (never out).
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→ You’ll realize your inner critic sounds exactly like your mom/coach/boss—and learn how to tell it to STFU.
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→ EMDR lets you process trauma without turning therapy into a never ending conversation.
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→ IFS gives a map to your internal chaos so you can stop feeling like a walking contradiction.
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→ You might cry the first time you hear your own voice under all that noise.
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→ “I don’t feel anything” becomes “I can feel, and I don’t fall apart when I do.”
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→ You’ll stop apologizing for existing.
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→ Warning: You’ll probably laugh in therapy. (A lot.)
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→ We’ll name that part of you that wants to bail and say “thanks, but no thanks.”
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→ You’ll learn how to stay with yourself instead of ghosting your own damn life.
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→ You’ll make room for grief and joy—because both get to exist.
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→ Nothing you say is too much. I’ve heard it all, and I’ll sit with you in the dark until the lights start to flicker back on.
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