Gabriella Sloan, LCPC, LMHC

Gabbie is a gentle trauma-informed therapist and clinical supervisor serving individuals and families in Illinois and Iowa. She works from a humanistic and systemic lens, with experience in internal family systems, cognitive therapies, and emotion focused therapy. Her professional identity hinges upon autonomy, human dignity, unconditional positive regard, and compassion.

In her sessions, Gabbie often works with clients on cultivating self-compassion, increasing emotional awareness, developing mindfulness practices with a focus on nervous system regulation and education, and increasing feelings of curiosity and self-competency. If nothing else, she would like to create a safe space for someone to show up and be held while they navigate their pain.

Gabbie’s primary populations served are individuals with eating disorders, trauma survivors, and families supporting a child or loved one through a mental health struggle. She is especially drawn to working with “chronic” or “treatment-resistant” presentations, offering care that is collaborative, attuned, and deeply respectful of each client’s lived experience. Please see the list below for more information on areas Gabbie has experience providing counseling support for.

Throughout her career, Gabbie’s primary clinical focus has been supporting individuals and families navigating restrictive eating disorders, primarily anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and ARFID. Her approach is grounded in Health at Every Size (HAES), intuitive eating, and a harm-reduction, anti-carceral framework.
She has worked with every feeding and eating disorder with the exclusion of PICA and night eating syndrome.
Before starting Eunoia Collective, Gabbie was a program manager at a DBT full fidelity facility, where she oversaw a Complex Trauma and Eating Disorder partial hospitalization program and intensive outpatient program. It was here she deepened her knowledge of DBT, CPT, and was trained by somatic providers.
Similarly, it was there Gabbie expanded her work with individuals experiencing “treatment resistant” symptoms, which are diagnoses that have not responded to previous interventions, or those facing chronic suicidality and self-injury. She has supported patients as they pursue ketamine, TMS, and ECT.
Gabbie has experience working with both children and adults experiencing enmetophobia and contamination phobia, especially in regard to how this has impacted their food intake, weight, or well-being. She loves helping individuals living with OCD and OCPD as well. She has training in ERP but prefers to approach exposure work in a gentle, trauma-informed way.
Gabbie enjoys supported her clients through any of the following: Infertility, Endometriosis, Pregnancy Loss, Post-Partum support, Parenthood and Adoption
Gabbie’s year of intern work was spent partnered with the Universtiy of Florida PALS program, where she worked at the inpatient level of care providing stabilization support for adults and children with severe mood disorders.
After graduating with her graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Gabbie went on to provide individual therapy for individuals all of ages struggling with a depressive diagnosis or an anxiety disorder.
When it comes to family therapy, Gabbie has experience from the residential to outpatient levels of care providing family therapy for those navigating a loved one’s eating disorder, parenting and foster care, adoption, childhood medical trauma, transplant journeys, and supporting children living on the autism spectrum.