Trauma-informed therapy for chronic illness, chronic pain, disability, and anxiety in California
Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #14313
Certified Rehabilitation Counselor #564222
Supervised by Emily Morrison, LMFT #49259
My practice integrates trauma-informed psychotherapy and modern neuroscience to support your body’s stress response and sense of safety. I help clients work with chronic anxiety, trauma, and the impact of chronic illness, pain, and disability. Support is focused on helping you feel more grounded, regulated, and able to navigate daily life with greater stability and ease.
Specialized support for:
Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) and PTSD Treatment: Understanding the neurobiological impact of trauma in complex trauma (C-PTSD) and PTSD, with a focus on reducing hyper-vigilance, processing trauma responses, and restoring a sense of internal safety and emotional regulation.
Chronic Anxiety: Support for chronic anxiety, panic, and nervous system dysregulation, helping reduce fight-or-flight activation and improve emotional stability and grounding in daily life.
Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain and Disability Support: Navigating the emotional impact of chronic illness, chronic pain, and disability, including grief, identity changes, and stress related to living with ongoing health conditions.
Executive Functioning and Cognitive Overload: Addressing executive functioning challenges, burnout, and cognitive overload, focused on improving focus, organization, and daily functioning through brain-body integration strategies.
Online and in-person sessions for California Residents
In-person and Online Therapy
I offer both in-person therapy in [Santa Rosa, CA] and secure online therapy throughout California, providing flexible options to support your needs, access, and comfort.
Accessibility is a core part of my practice. Accommodations are available to support a range of needs related to chronic illness, chronic pain, disability, anxiety, and sensory sensitivity, including:
Telehealth therapy sessions (video-based)
Flexible scheduling options
Camera-optional virtual sessions
Low-stimulation, sensory-aware session environments
My goal is to provide therapy that is adaptable, accessible, and responsive to your lived experience—so you can engage in a way that feels sustainable and supportive.
How I Can Support You
Individual, Couples & Family Therapy
Therapy is a collaborative process of self discovery, healing and growth. In individual, couples, or family therapy, we work together to build awareness, address patterns that contribute to distress, and support meaningful change that aligns with your well-being.
Take a step toward feeling more supported in your body, relationships, and daily life.
About Gabrielle Baylor, APCC, CRC
Therapy here is collaborative, paced and adaptable to your needs. You will never be asked to “just think positive,” or “try harder.” You will be met with compassion, realism, and respect for what your mind and body are experiencing, with support that honors your lived experience.
Trauma-informed and mind-body approaches to healing
Identity & Self-Understanding WorkThis work supports strengthening self-trust, self-understanding, and a more integrated sense of identity shaped by trauma, disability, chronic illness, and lived experience. We explore how parts of the self may have been suppressed in response to family, cultural, or systemic expectations, with a focus on fostering authenticity, awareness, and internal wholeness.
Trauma Processing (PTSD & C-PTSD)This work supports you in healing from trauma, including PTSD and C-PTSD, by helping you make sense of how past experiences may still be showing up in your thoughts, emotions, and body. We’ll focus on gently reducing symptoms like hypervigilance, emotional overwhelm, and shutdown while increasing your sense of safety and stability. Using trauma-informed CBT, somatic interventions, DBT skills, and nervous system regulation work, we move at a pace that feels safe and supportive for you.
Crisis Stabilization & Emotional RegulationThis work supports you during times of emotional overwhelm or crisis, helping you find steadiness and a greater sense of safety when things feel intense or hard to manage. We’ll use trauma-informed care and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills like grounding, mindfulness, and distress tolerance to help you regulate emotions, calm your nervous system, and feel more supported through difficult moments.
Boundaries & Relationship PatternsThis work supports you in understanding and shifting relationship patterns such as boundary challenges, people-pleasing, and emotional over-responsibility that can feel hard to change. We’ll gently explore how early attachment experiences may show up as anxious, avoidant, or disorganized patterns in your current relationships. Using DBT skills, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) insight work, and attachment-informed approaches, we focus on healing these patterns so you can build more secure, balanced, and connected relationships.
Chronic Pain, Illness & Disability SupportThis work supports you in navigating the emotional, physical, and life changes that come with chronic pain, chronic illness, and disability, whether newly acquired or long-standing. Together, we’ll work through grief, adjustment, and the challenges of navigating school, work, relationships, and systems that often weren’t built with your needs in mind. Using Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Emotion Awareness Expression Therapy (EAET), somatic work, CBT/DBT skills, and nervous system regulation, we focus on helping you create a life that works with your body, not against it.
Anxiety & Nervous System RegulationThis work supports you in working with anxiety and fear-based responses that can feel overwhelming, persistent, or hard to control. We’ll focus on helping you understand and respond to what your nervous system is doing in moments of fear, while developing practical ways to feel more steady, grounded, and in control. Using PRT, EAET – informed work, CBT, DBT skills, and somatic interventions, we support your system in shifting out of fear cycles and into greater regulation and ease.
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health.” — Bessel van der Kolk
Bessel van der Kolk, MD, is a leading trauma researcher and author of The Body Keeps the Score.
Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor
Gabrielle Baylor, APCC, CRC
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BA in Hispanic Studies from Colorado College
MA in Rehabilitation Counseling from The George Washington State University
Certified Rehabilitation Counselor #564222
Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #14313
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My Integrative approach draws on principles from the following:
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)
Emotion Focused Expression Therapy (EAET)
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Mind-Body (Somatic) Interventions
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I am a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC), a credential that reflects specialized training in supporting individuals with disabilities, chronic health conditions, and functional limitations in navigating work, education, and daily life. This certification emphasizes a holistic, person-centered approach that integrates mental health, accessibility needs, and vocational and life adjustment support.
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With over 20 years of lived experience with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), I bring personal understanding of the stigma, barriers, and isolation that can arise within the disability community. My approach is rooted in empathy, authenticity, and empowerment.
Blog
Therapy for Chronic Pain and Illness: Coping with Medical Trauma, Stress, and Disability
When Rest Isn’t Restful: Chronic Illness, Fatigue, and the Reality of “Taking a Break”
Exercises to Calm Anxious Thoughts: A Disability-Informed, Nervous System Approach
