Personal Healing — One-on-One Sessions

You already know something's wrong. What's missing is where to start.

Personal Healing is ongoing, one-on-one work rooted in IFS-informed parts work — in person in Missoula, Montana, or online by Zoom, for people ready to find that starting point.

Parts work, tarot, herbalism, energy work, and soft-touch bodywork all live inside this one practice. Bodywork is part of in-person sessions in Missoula, and the rest of the work travels well online. You get many ways of working with what's going on, from one person in one place, instead of piecing your healing together from five different practitioners.

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Gabrielle Díona in warm conversation with a client

Who This Is For

Women who are done managing and ready to actually live.

This work tends to resonate with women who:

Have leaned on the same coping mechanism — food, alcohol, overworking, numbing out — for so long it's started showing up as real health problems
Have "mystery" symptoms that Western medicine hasn't been able to explain, and are tired of being told nothing is wrong
Have done real work in talk therapy, understand their patterns intellectually, and want tools that help those insights actually land — in a felt, practical way, in daily life
Are navigating a major transition — a breakup, divorce, death, or other loss — and need to find their footing again
Struggle to set or hold a boundary, even when they know intellectually that they should
Carry tension, fatigue, or bracing in the body that talking alone hasn't resolved
Are curious about energy work and a more holistic, intuitive approach, but have been put off by how disconnected from reality those spaces can feel
Want to be an active part of their own process, not a passenger in it

Why IFS

You are not one voice. You're a system of parts.

Internal Family Systems starts from a simple but often overlooked premise: the psyche isn't singular. You contain different parts of yourself, each shaped by experience, each with its own perspective and its own agenda — an internal dialogue that can want genuinely different things at the same time.

That's why you can want to change and resist changing in the very same breath. Why you can set a boundary and then apologize for it five minutes later. It's not a character flaw. It's an internal negotiation you haven't had yet.

This is often where people land after they've already done real work in talk therapy — they can name their patterns, but naming hasn't been enough to change how life actually feels day to day. IFS works experientially rather than only analytically, which is often what's needed to take insight the rest of the way: into your body, your relationships, your daily life.

Instead of trying to eliminate or override those parts, the work invites curiosity and relationship:

What part of you is showing up right now?
What is it trying to accomplish?
What is it protecting you from?
What does it need you to understand?
What becomes possible with more internal compassion and choice?

What a Session May Explore

The work begins with what's actually happening for you.

You don't need to arrive knowing which modality you need. Sessions often move between the body, the psyche, and the practical realities of your life — following whatever's most alive in the moment, rather than a fixed protocol.

IFS-Informed Parts Work

The center of gravity — identifying and building relationship with the parts driving a pattern.

Mindset & Belief Work

Examining the stories and beliefs that keep a pattern in place, and where they came from.

Somatic Awareness

Noticing where an experience lives in the body, and what happens when you slow down enough to feel it.

Herbalism & Nutrition

Traditional herbal knowledge and nutritional support, woven in when it genuinely serves the work.

Archetypes & Symbolism

Tarot’s archetypes are some of the oldest we have for the human experience, and they point to what you may be moving through — never a prediction. Astrology too, if you'd like it, for constitutional type and the archetypes you carry. See what this looks like ↓

Subtle Body & Energy

Attention to vitality, boundaries, and the body's more subtle signals, where relevant.

Tarot & Astrology, Plainly

If your only picture of tarot is a fortune teller, this is something else.

Tarot holds some of the oldest archetypes we have for the human experience — the seeker, the caretaker, the one who has to let something end. Carl Jung saw archetypes as the universal patterns people live through, and that's how I use the cards. When one lands in a session, it isn't there to predict anything. It points to what you may be moving through, so you can name it and see it from a little more distance.

What that can look like

The seeker

The Hermit

You bring a question about a direction you can't quite see. The Hermit shows up: a figure alone on a mountain, holding a lantern that lights only the next few steps. It doesn't tell you where you're going. It asks which part of you is willing to walk without the whole map, and which part is panicking that you don't have one.

The caretaker

The Empress

You've been the one holding everyone up. The Empress lands — nourishment, abundance, the one everybody comes to. It isn't a forecast that more people will need you. It's a picture of a role you've learned to play, and a question: who feeds her? What would it be like for that part of you to be looked after for once?

The one who has to let something end

Death

It's the card people brace for, and it never means what the movies say. Nobody is dying. It's the archetype of an ending that has to happen so something else can: a role, a relationship, an old version of you. The question isn't when it's coming. It's what is already ready to go, and what part of you is afraid of losing it.

These are examples of the approach, not a script. What lands in a session is whatever lands, and what it means gets decided between us — mostly by you.

And what it isn't

Predicting. No one is telling you whether you'll get the job, meet someone, or what's coming next.
Telling you what to do. A card can help name something. Deciding is always yours.
The point. The cards are a doorway into the parts work. Meeting what's underneath with curiosity is what carries the weight.

Astrology, if you want it

Astrology is optional, and it's used the same way: as one more set of archetypes to work with, never a forecast.

In the style of herbalism I was trained in, astrology is one way of understanding a person's constitutional type, alongside the constitutional types described in Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. A birth chart can help ground us in how you're built, and it gives us language for the internal archetypes you may be carrying — how they show up in you, and how to work with them rather than against them.

If you'd like to include it, the new client intake asks for your birth date, time and place. If you'd rather not, skip it. Nothing about your sessions depends on it.

What Sessions Are Like

Ongoing, relational, and paced to you.

Personal Healing is offered as ongoing, one-on-one sessions — in person in Missoula, Montana, or online by Zoom for clients elsewhere. Sessions aren't a single fix, and there's no fixed number decided in advance. Real change tends to happen through consistency over time, not a single breakthrough.

Each session starts with what's actually present for you that day. From there, we follow what's most useful — which might mean IFS-informed parts work, might mean a conversation about a pattern in your life, might mean something more somatic or symbolic. You don't have to know in advance.

A note on independence: I'm not asking you to abandon anything else you're doing for your health. If you're working with a doctor, therapist, or other provider, this work is meant to complement that — not replace it.

You're also welcome to bring specific goals, or none at all. Both are fine places to start.

Working Together — Investment

What working together costs, plainly.

I only take on ongoing clients I'm building something real with, which is why regular work happens at a set cadence rather than as drop-in sessions. Here's how it breaks down. I keep a small number of ongoing client spots so everyone gets real attention. Reach out to schedule, or to join my waitlist if I'm full.

You're paying for one session, not five practitioners. As we work, ongoing and single sessions can draw on parts work, tarot, herbalism, energy work, and soft-touch bodywork when you're here in person — whichever the moment calls for. Most people end up piecing this together from several practitioners in several places, each with their own rate. Here it's one person, one place, one price.

$97

90 minutes

The Snapshot Session

The doorway into working together, and not a one-and-done. Ninety minutes built around a single question: a decision you can't make, a pattern you keep circling, something you can't quite name yet. We work through it with IFS-informed parts work and tarot, whose archetypes are some of the oldest we have for the human experience. It gives us both a real taste of working together. If it's a fit, ongoing sessions widen from there into bodywork, energy work, herbalism and nutrition. Available while I have openings.

$185

90 minutes, per session

Ongoing Work

My rate for clients meeting with me 2–4 times a month. Psychological work takes time to integrate, so this is the pace I recommend for real, lasting change.

$225

90 minutes

Single Sessions

For a one-off session outside of ongoing, consistent work.

There are two rates here: the ongoing rate for clients working with me consistently, and the single-session rate for occasional visits. Both may rise over time with cost of living. But work with me consistently for six months or more, and you've earned permanent access to whichever is lower of the two — for life. Even if you later step back to occasional visits, you'll return at that lower rate, not the single-session one.

* Does the cost feel out of reach? Please reach out anyway. I keep a limited number of discounted sessions open, I'm genuinely open to trade, and there are often creative ways to bring the cost down when both of us have the capacity. Let's have a conversation.

Text Us to Book or reach out any way you like on the contact page.

Intensives

For when you’re burnt out and need more than a session can hold.

For some people, real change asks for far more space than a weekly session allows, especially when you’re depleted and the usual tools aren’t reaching it. I offer in-person Intensives: days set apart for hands-on healing, inspired by traditional approaches like panchakarma and the dieta, and built around simplification, rest, nourishment, and renewal. They’re structured around your own needs rather than a fixed program, and they can be just for you or curated for you and the people you’re closest to.

These are arranged individually, based on what you're working with and what kind of space you need. If this sounds like something you need, reach out and we can talk through whether it's a fit.

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Gabrielle Díona providing hands-on bodywork with a client

Independent Practice — Scope & Transparency

What this work is, and what it isn't.

The Body of Wisdom is intentionally structured as an independent practice, drawing from multiple traditions and forms of inquiry rather than a single licensed modality. This reflects the breadth of the work, not a lack of training.

Before beginning, it's important to understand: I am not operating as a state-licensed healthcare provider for this work. This is not a substitute for medical or psychiatric care, and it is not necessarily psychotherapy. I do not diagnose or treat medical or psychiatric conditions. If you're experiencing a medical or mental health crisis, please seek licensed care — I'm glad to help you think about where that fits alongside this work.

Clients choosing this work are doing so voluntarily, with a clear understanding of what it is and isn't. If any of this is unclear, ask — that conversation is part of how we begin.

See my full training and background →

Who This Is Not For

Being honest about fit matters more than filling a session.

This work is not a substitute for emergency mental health support, a crisis intervention, or licensed medical or psychiatric treatment. If you're in crisis, please reach out to a licensed provider or crisis line first — this work can be a good complement once you're stable, but it isn't built to hold an acute crisis on its own.

FAQ

Common Questions

Is this therapy?

Not in the licensed, clinical sense. This work is IFS-informed, but I am not a licensed psychotherapist, and this isn't a substitute for therapy if that's what you need. Many clients use this work alongside therapy, not instead of it — and some of my best-suited clients have already done real work in talk therapy. They understand their patterns intellectually; what they're looking for here is something that helps translate that understanding into practical, lived change — to actually see and feel the shift in daily life, not just be able to name it.

Who is this for?

People working through things like:

Repeating the same relationship pattern and wanting to understand why
Feeling like you've done a lot of "inner work" already, but it hasn't changed how you actually feel day to day
Struggling to set or hold a boundary, even when you know intellectually that you should
A body that holds tension, fatigue, or bracing that talking alone hasn't resolved
Feeling disconnected from parts of yourself, or unsure which part of you is actually in charge in a given moment
Wanting practical, felt change — not just more insight

What if I don't know what I need?

That's genuinely fine, and common. Most sessions start with what's actually present for you that day — you don't need a diagnosis or a plan to begin.

Do you diagnose or treat medical or mental health conditions?

No. This work doesn't diagnose or treat medical or psychiatric conditions. If something you're experiencing needs licensed medical or mental health care, I'll say so directly, and can help you think through where to find it.

How often do people meet with you?

This varies by person. Many clients start with weekly or biweekly sessions and adjust from there based on what feels useful.

Is this fortune telling?

No. Nothing here predicts what will happen to you. Tarot is used the way Carl Jung thought about archetypes: some of the oldest images we have for patterns people live through. If the Death card lands, nobody is dying. It points to something that may be ready to end, and a way to ask what part of you is holding on. More examples above.

Will you use tarot or astrology in my sessions?

Tarot is part of the Snapshot Session and comes up in other sessions when it's useful, always as archetypes to work with rather than a prediction. Astrology is entirely optional. If you're curious, I'll ask for your birth date, time and place on the intake form, and I use it as one way of understanding constitutional type and the internal archetypes you carry. If you'd rather not, we simply don't.

Where have you trained?

I keep a full, transparent list of my training and background on the About page, since it's a lot to include here.

Begin

You Don't Have to Know How

You already know something needs to change. What's harder is knowing where to start — especially if you've tried before, with practitioners who didn't have the right pieces, and started to wonder if this is just how it is. It isn't. Real change is possible, and that's the work we do together.

Interested in Working Together? Read What Clients Say

Still deciding? The client experiences page is a dozen accounts of what this work has actually been like for other people — probably more useful than anything else I could tell you myself.