Gabriella’s Professional Overview

Gabriella is an Associate Professional Counselor (LAPC) who provides a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to mental health care. She brings both compassion and steadiness into the counseling room.

Before becoming a mental health counselor, Gabriella Diaz BSN, MA, LAPC spent 22 years as a Registered Nurse, walking alongside people in some of their most vulnerable moments. That experience shaped the way she cares for others today—attentively, respectfully, and with a deep belief in each person’s capacity to heal and manage life’s difficulties.

Gabriella hopes that therapy becomes a place where clients feel safe to explore, grow, and reconnect with the parts of themselves that have been overlooked or wounded. She considers it an honor to walk with people as they move toward managing, healing, wholeness, and a renewed sense of possibility.

Education and Formation

Gabriella holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Grand Canyon University, an associate degree in biblical studies from Southwest Bible School and Seminary, and a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Liberty University. Her academic and spiritual formation strengthen her ability to integrate evidence-based counseling with faith-informed perspectives when the client desires.

Ministry and Community Engagement

Her lay ministry experience includes serving as Mission Director for a local Assembly of God church in Virginia, small group leader, Women’s event speaker, short term missions worker. As a summer intern with Out of Darkness (Frontline Response: Human Trafficking), she contributed to the development and delivery of educational programs and gained meaningful experience supporting individuals who have survived complex trauma. These combined experiences deepened her commitment to advocacy, outreach, and trauma responsive care.

Values and Clinical Focus

Gabriella’s work is shaped by a deep passion for social justice and a belief that the fullness of God is experienced through authentic community. She is dedicated to serving individuals who have experienced trauma, domestic violence, addiction, and systemic disenfranchisement. This commitment is both professional and personal, influencing the way she approaches each therapeutic relationship.

Counseling Approach

Gabriella offers a unique blend of person centered and structured evidence based care. As an integrative counselor, she tailors treatment to each client’s needs and preferences, drawing from a wide range of modalities.

Available Approaches

1. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)–Informed Care: –Skills groups (coming soon)

2. Cognitive Behavioral Therapies: –CBT for psychosis –Schema informed approaches –Biblical/faith based CBT

3. Trauma Informed Care: –EMDR –Internal Family Systems –Inner Healing Prayer –Brain spotting informed care

4. Couples Counseling –Gottman trained –Hope Focused-Informed –SYMBIS (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts) premarital counseling

5. Faith Based Counseling –Discipleship informed counseling –Inner Healing Prayer

6. Creative Approaches –Art informed interventions –Play therapy

Recent Clinical Experience

Early on in her counseling career, Gabriella worked with individuals experiencing dual diagnoses, including anxiety, depression, trauma, and personality disorders. She continues to expand her education and training, adding new interventions and approaches to better serve clients with complex needs including severe, persistent mental health conditions.

Her recent work includes supporting individuals with severe and persistent mental health conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and personality disorders.

Her combined nursing and counseling background allows her to understand these conditions from both medical and psychological perspectives.

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Meet Tundi Jones, MA, LPC, CPCS

Founder & Clinical Director

Family Systems Therapist

With over 28 years of experience, Tundi Jones has spent her career helping individuals, couples, and families find their way out of patterns that feel painful, confusing, and hard to change.

Many of the people who come to her feel stuck. They’ve tried to fix things. They’ve had the same conversations over and over again. They care deeply about their relationships—but something still isn’t working.

Communication breaks down. Tension builds. Disconnection grows. And over time, it can start to feel discouraging, even hopeless.

Tundi understands that what people are experiencing on the surface is often only part of the story.

Looking Beneath What’s Visible:

As a family systems therapist, Tundi looks beyond behaviors and symptoms to understand the patterns, relationships, and dynamics underneath them.

She helps people begin to see what’s been hard to name: * why the same arguments keep happening, * why reactions feel so strong, * why change doesn’t seem to last.

With clarity comes the ability to respond differently—and that’s where real change begins.

Her work integrates structural family therapy, attachment-based approaches, the Gottman Method for couples, and Internal Family Systems. This allows her to address not only what is happening in relationships, but also what is happening internally for each person.

When Families Feel Complicated: * Tundi works with individuals, couples, and families navigating complex and often emotionally loaded situations.

• Sometimes it’s a couple who feels more like roommates than partners.

• Sometimes it’s a family caught in ongoing conflict where everyone feels misunderstood.

• Sometimes it’s a parent unsure how to reach a child who feels distant, overwhelmed, or reactive.

• She also works closely with blended families—where love is present, but roles, expectations, and loyalties can feel unclear or strained.

• And for families walking through divorce, co-parenting, or court involvement, she brings a steady, structured approach that helps reduce confusion and create a clearer path forward.

What It Feels Like to Work With Her: * Clients often describe Tundi as warm, grounded, and easy to talk to—but also clear, direct, and intentional.

• She creates a space where people feel safe enough to be honest, while also helping them move forward in a way that feels purposeful and productive.

• She doesn’t just listen—she helps you understand what’s happening, why it’s happening, and how to begin changing it.

Support That Extends Beyond the Session: * For some families, insight alone isn’t enough—they need support applying change in real time.

• When appropriate, Tundi offers a more integrated level of care, including a coordinated team approach and in-home family intervention support. This helps bridge the gap between what is talked about in session and what actually happens at home.

Working with Children and Teens: * Tundi has a natural ability to connect with children and adolescents, helping them feel seen and understood without pressure.

• She recognizes that many young people don’t open up through conversation alone. By incorporating creative and experiential approaches, she helps them build emotional awareness, learn regulation, and reconnect within their family in a more meaningful way.

Leadership and Clinical Supervision: * In addition to her clinical work, Tundi serves as a Clinical Director and Supervisor, mentoring therapists in how to think systemically and work more effectively with individuals, couples, and families.

• She helps clinicians move beyond symptom-focused care and develop the ability to understand deeper relational patterns, navigate complex dynamics, and create meaningful, lasting change with their clients.

• Her leadership experience spans nonprofit, school, church, and legal systems—giving her a well-rounded, real-world perspective that informs both how she practices and how she leads.

Faith as Part of the Process (When Desired): * For those who want it, Tundi is comfortable integrating faith into the counseling process.

• She believes that while growth requires honest work, it is grace—not shame—that allows people to truly change. And no one is meant to walk through that process alone.

A Final Thought:

• If you’re feeling stuck, discouraged, or unsure where to start—you’re not alone.

• And the fact that you’re even considering support means something is already beginning to shift.

• Change is possible. Not just temporary change—but the kind that actually lasts.

• And you don’t have to figure it out on your own.

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