Gabriela Arroyo-Grynbal
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #129885
Supervised by: Cheryl Clift LMFT#120106
A Space to Be Fully Human
In a world that too often rushes to label, fix, or diagnose, my approach to therapy begins differently — with you. Not as a problem to be solved, but as a person with depth, history, resilience, and stories that matter.
This is a space where you are not only seen — but held. Where your culture, your lineage, your inner knowing, and your lived experience are honored as sources of wisdom.
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Whether you're navigating grief, identity, anxiety, intergenerational trauma, or simply feeling the weight of being human — I offer a space that is compassionate, collaborative, and culturally-attuned. A space where healing doesn’t mean erasing who you are, but reconnecting with the strengths you already carry.
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Therapy rooted in Relationship, Respect and Curiosity
As a therapist, my goal is to work together to co-create a process that is uniquely yours.
We can explore and highlight the wisdom you carry that can sometimes feel buried or quiet, but is always present.
Therapy can be a place to reconnect with ancestral stories, values, and traditions that still have something to offer. Culture is not a backdrop — it’s central.
I hold space with awareness of the beauty, tension, and complexity that comes with living between or across cultures.
Healing is not about perfection or fitting in — it's about reclaiming wholeness and feeling connected and attuned to ourselves and those around us.
Who I Work With and How it Looks in Practice
I work with individuals and couples navigating life transitions, relationships, identity, and belonging — in all their complexity. Maybe you grew up navigating multiple cultures and values at once and are looking to make sense of how these complexities show up in your daily life. Or maybe you and your partner continue to get stuck on the same pattern or topic that is beginning to make your relationship feel painful or stagnant. Perhaps you are entering a new chapter in life or shedding an old chapter, and want to make space for intention and honor challenging feelings related to change.
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This is a space that centers your lived experience and honors your strength, not just your struggle. We will make space to better understand feelings of stuckness, communication, connection, familial relationships, friendships, and more. This is a safe, inclusive, and sacred space. This practice is explicitly anti-pathologizing and anti-oppressive. I honor neurodiversity, queer and trans identities, BIPOC experiences, immigrant stories, and the beautiful variety of ways people exist in the world.
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Together, we’ll slow down. Listen inward. Welcome the layers. Make space for your story — not just the hard parts, but the hopeful ones too.
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When appropriate, I will bring in practical tools, mindfulness tools, and prompt somatic work to build upon your current coping strategies.
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Whether you're new to therapy or returning after time away, you're welcome here just as you are.​
Individuals
Do you find yourself wanting to explore your experiences and emotions on a deeper level? Or maybe find yourself struggling to understand your identity/personality and position in the world. Maybe you're transitioning into a new relationship or exiting a relationship that is no longer serving you. Individual therapy with me, can provide a space to unpack and explore these themes. Sometimes, these topics may manifest themselves as stress, anxiety, turbulent relationships, overwhelm, physical symptoms, and more. Together we can create understanding and healing.
Couples
I am passionate about inviting relationships into the room through couples therapy work. As you may know, relationships can be joyful yet challenging at times. We face all kinds of challenges such as; differing communication styles, cultural differences, differing intimacy needs, life transitions, and more. Oftentimes, it can be helpful to not have to face these challenges on our own, especially when unhelpful and unnoticed patterns tend to get in the way.
Young Adults
Therapy is a valuable tool for helping young adults build resilience, gain self-awareness, and develop coping strategies that will serve them throughout their lives. Developmentally, many young adults may be wanting to navigate identity and self discovery, manage emotional intensity, cope with life transitions, build communication skills, improve self-esteem, have a safe space to feel heard and understood, and more.
Premarital Counseling
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Therapy for Couples in Transition
I offer counseling for couples exploring marriage as well as couples in life transitions. Through my work, I have found these topics to frequently come up in sessions. Together, we can explore themes such as moving in together, starting a family, marriage, blending families, and consensual non-monogamy .
It’s exciting to see how couples who are creating intentional space to explore these life transitions, have noticed feeling closer and more connected. We have been able to address conflicts and differences, and overall improve relationship satisfaction. Luckily, couples don’t have to be in crisis to work on the relationship and deepen the connection to one another!
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I am offering virtual sessions and have sliding scale slots available. I am trained in Gottman therapy, but enjoy incorporating different modalities such as Emotionally Focused Therapy or alternative modalities that best suit the couple.​​
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." - Audre Lorde
Understanding intersectionality is a powerful tool that I am passionate about using in my work.
I emphasize Liberation psychotherapy. Liberation psychotherapy is an approach that focuses on healing individuals and communities by addressing the psychological, social, and political systems of oppression. It combines traditional therapeutic techniques with an emphasis on social justice, cultural awareness, and collective healing. The goal is not just individual well-being, but also broader societal change. In addition, I find Narrative therapy, mindfulness based modalities, and the humanistic les to be inclusive modalities that I often use as a guide to work with individuals and couples.
As a Latina therapist, I find exploring identity to be deeply fulfilling and extremely powerful for cross-cultural and interracial couples as well as individuals who are seeking to deepen their understanding of their identity. It can be tough navigating this current climate as well as systems of oppression and I enjoy how couple work and individual therapy can support collaboration and partnership to explore healing and resistance.