Gabriela Zapata-Alma (They, them, elle)

LCSW CADC
Accepting Clients

You're ready to truly come alive within your own life. I'm here as a partner and guide as you reclaim your power.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois

Services
  • Individual

About My Clients

Reaching out for help can be hard, especially when you've been impacted by trauma or oppression. You may be experiencing trauma, breaking cycles that no longer serve you, or navigating work stress or political anxiety. Whether you're addressing trauma, stress from discrimination, neurodivergent burnout, substance use, or major transitions, therapy is never one-size-fits-all with me.

My Background and Approach

As a nationally recognized trauma expert with 20 years of experience, I'm here as your supportive partner and guide, creating a space where you can lean into challenges, reconnect with your wisdom, and reclaim your power in all areas of life. I consider therapy a science and an art deeply rooted in millennia of healing traditions. By blending modern, evidence-based approaches with time-honored practices and creative innovation, I craft a personalized path that supports you in reaching your goals. You deserve a therapist who sees your full, culturally rich humanity and honors you as you are. In our work together, there's no judgment, only authentic partnership as you author your own existence. You are worthy of the deep, transformative care you're seeking and it would be my honor to accompany you on this journey.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I deeply value interdependence and being in right relationship with my diasporic and ancestral lands as a community member, partner, parent, and future ancestor. When I'm not cultivating healing and justice, I can be found with my nose in a book, my fingers in the soil, roaming through forests, or singing and dancing with my family. As a person who has survived violence and trauma, I center self-defined goals and empowerment in my work. As a breaker of generational curses, I see all healing work as healing generations spanning backwards and forwards. As the grandchild of someone who survived political torture, I volunteer providing trauma therapy with people who have experienced political torture. I see humans as an expression of the land, and so human healing ripples outward into the land. My work is guided by these core values: liberation, transformation, interdependence, harmony, and balance. Visit my website www.gzaink.com to see how I define these in my work.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Internal Family Systems Trauma Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Addiction Counseling
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Harm Reduction Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Relational Therapy
  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy
  • Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Brainspotting

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Addiction Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • Addiction
  • ADHD Therapists
  • Anger Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Bipolar
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Chronic Pain or Illness
  • Depression
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
  • Family Conflict
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • Immigration/Acculturation
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Personality Disorders
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Racial Identity
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Spirituality
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Women's Issues
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Blue Choice
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Atheism
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Islam
  • Jainism
  • Judaism
  • The Satanic Temple
  • Wicca/Paganism
  • Interfaith
  • Multifaith

At A Glance

  • Experience: 21 years of practice
  • Languages: English, Español
  • Rate: $200 - 250/session

Reach out to Gabriela