Meet
Gabby Lopez, AMFT
1st and 2nd Generation Immigrant Counseling provided by a Mental Health Therapist in San Rafael, Marin County, CA
AMFT #162141, supervised by Ali Vogt LMFT #47693
She/Her/Siya
Telehealth
I help multicultural adults and couples find more steadiness, clarity, and honest connection, especially when different worlds, identities, or belief systems are in the room.
You’ve spent a long time adapting. Moving between cultures, languages, families, and expectations. Translating yourself in spaces that weren’t built to hold all of you. From the outside, things may look fine. Inside, there’s often a quiet exhaustion, the cost of holding it together without a place that feels truly yours.
I work with people who are thoughtful, capable, and carrying more than they let on. My approach is somatic and relational. We don’t only talk about what’s happening, we slow down enough to notice how your body is responding: where you tense, what you rush past, what you swallow, what wants to be said.
Attending to these cues creates options. Over time, you can feel steadier in yourself, clearer about what you want, and more able to show up with authenticity in your relationships.
I specialize in:
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Multicultural and bicultural couples therapy
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Culturally sensitive individual therapy
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Immigration, diaspora, and intergenerational family dynamics
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Identity shifts and major life transitions
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Anxiety, perfectionism, and chronic self-doubt
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Sex therapy and intimacy concerns for couples
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Somatic and body-based therapy
Who I work with:
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Couples and intimate partnerships navigating cultural differences
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Immigrants
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children of immigrants
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mixed race adults
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Asian American and Filipinx American clients
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First-generation professionals and caregivers
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Families navigating intergenerational conflict
And those struggling with:
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Couples stuck in conflict loops shaped by cultural or family pressure
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Partners who love each other but keep missing each other
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Desire differences
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Intimacy avoidance
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Shame around sex
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Feeling like you don't fully belong anywhere
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Anxiety that spikes around relationships
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Family conflict or big decisions
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Perfectionism
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Overthinking and the pressure to hold it together
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Code-switching so often, you've lost track of what's actually yours
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Grief
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Family rupture and intergenerational wounding
My background:
I’m Gabby Lopez, an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. I have a master’s in Somatic Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and a certification in sex therapy. I work with individuals and couples using a somatic, relational approach that is trauma-informed and attentive to how culture, power, and identity shape a person’s inner life. When it’s useful, I also work with dreams and unconscious material. I offer sessions in English and Tagalog.
For much of my life, I’ve moved between Manila and the US, not immigrating in the traditional sense, more of an ongoing back-and-forth. Living between worlds taught me the cost of constant translation, and the relief of finding a space where you don’t have to perform. That’s what I aim to offer in therapy: a steady place to feel what’s happening underneath the surface and respond with more choice.
Before my clinical training, I worked with youth and families in a therapeutic school setting and with immigrant communities through the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. I completed my clinical internship at the Center for Somatic Psychotherapy in San Francisco.