You're good at hiding it.
You know how to hold yourself together in a session. You know how to look regulated even when you’re running on empty. You know the language of self-care — and you also know the gap between knowing it and actually living it.
This isn’t about adding another practice to your to-do list. It’s about someone finally holding space for you — your exhaustion, your questions, your faith, your doubts, and the version of you that existed before you became everyone else’s therapist.
A framework for tending the whole you.
Soul care isn’t one thing. It’s an integrated approach that touches every part of who you are — your spirit, your relationships, your body, and your calling. These four pillars shape everything we do together.
Spiritual Formation
When life and work become noisy, we need space to slow down and reconnect with the sacred. Together, we create room for stillness, reflection, and tending the interior life that often gets neglected.
Offerings Include:
- Spiritual direction
- Rested Renewal
- Reflection
- Stillness
- Soul Care Intensives
Community
You were never meant to carry this work alone. Healing happens when we are truly seen, deeply known, and surrounded by people who understand the unique experience of being a therapist.
Offerings Include:
- Being truly known and understood
- Ignatian exercises
- Listening groups
- Spiritual direction groups
- Soul Care Retreats
Embodied Nature
I believe nature is more than a backdrop—it is part of the healing. Through movement, awareness, and time outdoors, we reconnect with our bodies and remember that restoration involves our whole selves.
Offerings Include:
- Movement in nature
- Somatic awareness
- Hiking
- Bilateral Stimulation
Purpose & Practice
It is easy to lose sight of why we began this work. This pillar invites you to reconnect with your values, your calling, and the deeper purpose that gives meaning to what you do.
Offerings Include:
- Vocational Clarity
- Reconnecting to Your Why
- Reflecting your Values
- CE Trainings
- Speaking
- Workshops & Teaching
Ways to work together.
Soul Care Intensives
One to four days. Fully immersive. Built entirely around you. A Soul Care Intensive draws on spiritual direction, deep therapeutic work, time in nature, and extended space for reflection — all woven together in a way that’s impossible to replicate in a one hour of spiritual direction. You come with what’s real. We work with all of it.
Spiritual Direction
Individual and group spiritual direction for therapists navigating the intersection of faith and clinical work. A contemplative space to tend your interior life — not as an add-on, but as the foundation.
Consulting
For therapists and practice owners who need a thinking partner with both clinical depth and soul. Whether you’re navigating a transition, clarifying direction, or just need someone who gets both worlds.
Ignatian Exercises
A structured, contemplative practice rooted in the Ignatian tradition. For therapists who want to go deeper in their interior life through guided, intentional spiritual work.
Groups
Listening groups and spiritual direction groups designed for therapists who want to be truly known and understood — not just supported. There’s something that happens when you’re in a room with people who actually get it.
Retreats
When a retreat happens, it’s one-of-a-kind. Thoughtfully curated, never mass-produced. Check back for upcoming offerings or get on the list to be notified first.
You need someone who gets it from the inside.
I’m Dawn Gabriel — licensed professional counselor, trained spiritual director, and someone who has sat in the exact chair you’re sitting in.
I spent years doing the work — private practice, clients, the whole load — and I learned the hard way that therapists are not immune to the costs of this profession. I found my way back through spiritual direction, soul care, nature, and community. And then I built a practice to offer exactly that to other practitioners.
I have over 20 years of clinical experience and more than five years of spiritual direction training. My approach is grounded in contemplative Christian practice, but I work with therapists across a wide range of faith backgrounds — as long as you’re open to the spiritual dimension of this work.
I’m based in Castle Rock, Colorado. I work with therapists across the country.
Lisa Franklin
6 year solo practice owner, 6 month group practice owner
I was looking for a business coach who could help me transition from a solo practice to a group practice. After talking with Dawn, I knew she would be the perfect fit to help me make this transition. Her years of experience as a group practice owner combined with her training in Spiritual Direction were invaluable in our consultation time. I always left our time together feeling empowered and renewed. Dawn helped me take my practice to the next level with a clear direction and a giant dose of confidence!
Brenda Stewart, LMHC, NCC, CCMHC
Practice Owner and Therapist
Consulting with Dawn has been life changing. Not only have I learned valuable information on being a group practice owner and leader, but through the integration of soul care, I have grown and changed deeply as a person. The outflow of who I am, as my soul is in a state of wellness, directly impacts my employees and then, in turn our clients. I am deeply grateful for Dawn’s leadership, expertise, and the way in which she tends to our souls as therapists and leaders.
Besty Mejas
I had a great experience working with Dawn. She struck a perfect balance between clinical and spiritual approaches. I appreciated being able to freely explore what God was revealing while also developing practical next steps. Dawn was very accommodating and provided great support.
Steph Korpal
Group practice owner
Dawn’s mastermind group was an absolute gift! It was a wonderful blend of consulting plus soul-care, where neither felt forced. The group she gathered was also one of the most naturally cohesive groups I’ve experienced when doing any type of small group work, which I found profoundly valuable. That she knows how big of an impact that dynamic can have on these experiences, and plans accordingly, makes it EXTRA worth doing. I felt cared for as a business owner but also as a faith-based person, who often needs help carving out time for that part of myself, and following through on activities and reflections that will be meaningful for my spirit and soul.
Ready to tend your own soul?
Start with a conversation. No pressure, no sales pitch. Just an honest talk about where you are and whether this work is a fit.