Spotlight: Getting to Know Gabrielle Samo, Founder of Gabrielle Samo Counseling
Finding Meaning In The Mess
I recently had the chance to interview with Voyage Denver for their Hidden Gems series, a collection that highlights local creators, helpers, and small business owners in the Denver area. It was such a meaningful opportunity to share more about the heart behind my work and how my own story shaped the way I show up as a therapist.
In the interview, I talked about how my path to becoming a counselor wasn’t linear. It was built out of loss, curiosity, and a deep desire to understand what it really means to be human, not just to survive hard things, but to grow through them.
Grief, change, identity—these are the spaces where we tend to lose our footing, but they’re also the places that invite us to slow down and listen differently. That’s the kind of work I love most: helping people find their way back to themselves when life doesn’t look the way they thought it would.
My journey into therapy wasn’t about wanting to fix people; it was about wanting to walk beside them as they make sense of what it means to be human. Grief, transition, and identity work are not tidy experiences. They’re often disorienting, but they also hold a quiet kind of wisdom. That’s what keeps me doing this work: witnessing people reconnect with themselves in ways that feel more grounded, more alive, more true.
“Therapy isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about reconnecting with yourself in a world that rarely gives you permission to slow down.”
Every day, I see how much people crave spaces that don’t demand they be productive, perfect, or okay. Spaces that let them breathe, feel, and unfold at their own pace. That’s what I hope my office and this work offer.
What I’ve learned through both my own healing and sitting with others is that slowing down isn’t a sign of weakness. It’s often the most courageous thing we can do. It’s in those quiet moments, when we stop performing and start paying attention, that something real begins to shift.
Sometimes that shift is subtle. A deep breath you didn’t realize you were holding. A tear that finally falls. The first honest answer to a question you’ve been avoiding. Those are sacred moments. They don’t always look like progress from the outside, but they’re what growth actually feels like from within.
Thanks for being here.
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Hidden Gems: Meet Gabrielle Samo of Gabrielle Samo Counseling