Hello,
I'm Gavrila Abramson
AMFT #134714
Welcome. I am so glad you are here. Being human can be rough, and navigating it, especially in relationship with others, can be one of its greatest challenges and greatest gifts. No one should feel like they are doing it alone. I am here to walk alongside you in your journey.
Hello,
I'm Gavrila Abramson
AMFT #134714
Welcome. I am so glad you are here. Being human can be rough. No one should feel like they are doing it alone. I am here to walk alongside you in your journey.
Calling in teens, families, and couples who are ready to be supported in their journey of belonging and connection.
My Approach:
As humans, we are guaranteed pain and stress in our lifetime. Yet, perhaps one of the most creative invitations of all on offer is what we do with this suffering. You are not your suffering. By using the foundations of mindful awareness, embodiment, and connection, suffering can be transformed into strength, a deeper knowing of oneself, and a greater intimacy with life itself.
I specialize in somatic (body-based) psychotherapy with an emphases on meditation, relational healing, and intergenerational and systemic acknowledgement. In therapy with me, we will pay attention to more than just your verbal story. You will learn how to include the significant language of your body and how to listen to and respond to its profound signals. For those who see me in-person, safe, embodied touch is an option in our work together, which can deepen the potentiality of healing when coupled with talk therapy and when appropriate, with client approval, and according to my clinical judgment. Touch can be especially effective while treating developmental trauma, relational trauma, and preverbal attachment wounds.
For both individuals and couples, we’ll cultivate awareness, safety, and the capacity to bring lived experience alive in the present moment. For couples, whether you are stuck in patterns, longing for deeper intimacy, navigating a transition, or exploring what your relationship wants to become, we’ll tend to the space between you – with curiosity, care, and presence. In addition to ongoing therapy, I also offer deep dive intensives, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), psychedelic integration, and sessions outdoors in nature.
I Have Experience Working With:
- Grief and life transitions
- Anxiety and depression
- Body image, body hatred, self-rejection
- Intimacy, queerness, and gender identity
- Ancestral, developmental, and systemic trauma
- Lineage reclamation and soul retrieval
- Polyamory and monogamy
- Childhood and/or relational trauma
- The complexities of thriving as a human being
Credentials:
- MA Somatic Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
- BA Industrial Engineering, University of Michigan
Experience and Training:
- Dedicated practitioners program and global facilitator in Trauma-sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven
- Co-founder and facilitator of Trauma-aware Mindfulness Collective
- Relational Somatic Therapy (Attachment Bonding and Therapeutic Touch)
- Yoga teacher training
- Mindfulness teacher and mentor for Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center and Inward Bound Mindfulness Education
Therapy Options:
Based in Nevada City, I offer both in-person and virtual psychotherapy sessions.
Supervised by Dmitry Vulfovich, LMFT #95964