Today we’d like to introduce you to Gabriella Drouillard-Moser.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
My name is Gabriella and I am the owner and sole practitioner at Hope, Growth & Chaos Coordination Therapy Services PLLC. I attended the University on NC at Greensboro and received two Bachelors degrees from there and then years later, after a corporate career returned for Graduate school at Boston College and there completed a Masters degree in Mental Health Counseling and a second Masters degree in Theology. I currently am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist in North Carolina and Professional Counselor Telehealth Provider in South Carolina. I have traveled the world and settled on a farm in NC with my husband and three sons. I am passionate about therapy and provide a direct approach that many value. I also offer therapy with respect to religious beliefs, which makes me very versatile in incorporating religious beliefs of my clients into their treatment. I am passionate about community and resources. My principles explain what I do more fully:
Hope: Hope is a building block for love. I am passionate about assisting individuals, couples and families in finding hope, and learning to love themselves and others, in a healthier way. I wrote my thesis on Hope and how to maintain hope when situations seem hopeless. Weather it is grief, betrayal, change, addiction, medical diagnoses, or general anxiety, my goal is to guide my clients, through the darkness, toward hope.
Growth: Growth is never easy, but at the end of growth you should have something to show for your hard work. I believe that we as humans are hellbent on resilience. I always say, “Would you rather just get through the struggle, or grow through the struggle?” My goal is that every client I take on, grows, in some capacity. This often looks like learning and building a toolbox or skill set, resetting habits and then applying them to their lives.
Chaos Coordination: Life is chaos. I have said before, I wished that someone could follow me around with a camera to catch the complete chaos that can be life. EVERYONE goes through periods of chaos, where you just want to cry and scream and shut down at the same time. EVERYONE needs someone to accompany them through the chaos of life. My goal is that no one feels alone in their chaos, but instead learns how to steer their ship through the hurricane that is life.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Business ownership is never a smooth road, especially as a woman, and homeschooling mom with an autistic child. I wear many hats and juggling is becoming something I could add to a resume. Being a therapist is in large part customization and empathic listening with tool building. Running a business is budgeting, marketing, web design, and returning calls promptly. Some days I feel like an octopus with something breakable in each 8 arms. But, it is totally worth it to have financial freedom and flexibility to be ever present in my children’s lives. I find that one of the toughest struggles is changing hats. When I am at work I am not “mom” and when I am at home I am not “therapist” although my kids and husband sometimes ask for “therapist-mom” or “therapist-wife” opinions. It takes a lot of work to keep these two major roles separate, and over the years I have gotten much better at it, but never perfect.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Hope, Growth & Chaos Coordination Therapy Services PLLC?
I offer psychotherapy services and I work with individual adolescents, adults, couples and families. I work with all couples whether pre-marital, long term, married, engaged, or anything in between. I also offers career counseling both from the lens of a counselor and the lens of a woman who was in the business sector for her first career.
I am passionate about each person seeing the genuine value within themselves. I believe in meeting clients where they are and accompanying them to become who they want to be, both individually and as a couple in the case of couples counseling. My goal with every client is for them to learn to see hope and eventually become that hope for someone else. She believes that every individual can be supported and support others and that is how we can better society and the self. I use a wide variety of interventions including cognitive behavioral, mindfulness-based, strength based, family systems, attachment therapies, reality therapy and Gottman. I believe that long-term sobriety is attainable with the proper supports and treatments along with a lot of hope and hard work.
Risk taking is a topic that people have widely differing views on – we’d love to hear your thoughts.
I have an interesting take on risk. Growing up I was told my someone I deeply respect that “every risk is an opportunity in hiding” and I have tried to live by this my entire life. I look back on my life as a professional and it was full of risks. I went back to graduate school as an “adult”, much older than most of my cohort. I was working a full time job and starting a family. I decided I wanted “it all”. I will never forget that my due date for my first son was the day I finished exams for my one Masters degree and I found out I was pregnant with my second son 5 days before my thesis defense for my second Masters degree. Then when my third son was a newborn I left the group practice I was working for and I opened my own private practice. I took a risk leaving my job in the business world, and I cannot even begin to explain the pay off. I have the ability to prioritize my family and my personal life, which was practically impossible in my first career. I took a risk in opening my own private practice and it has provided the financial freedom that I did not realize how much I would value. I choose to not live with regret and I live by the motto, “a mistake is only a mistake until it is a lesson well learned.”
Pricing:
- I currently accept most BCBS plan and Aetna and Aetna SHP insurances
- I offer self pay options for those looking to be out of network with their insurance
Contact Info:
- Website: https://chaoscoordinationtherapy.com/
- Instagram: @chaoscoordinationtherapypllc
- Facebook: Hope, Growth & Chaos Coordination Therapy Services PLLC.
