The body
knows the
way home.
You can't think your way out of a body that still believes it's in danger. Logic doesn't touch the nervous system. Safety does. I work with the parts of you that got left behind. And I bring them home.
I went first.
That's the credential.
I'm a trauma-informed coach, author, somatic healing guide, and grounded spiritual mentor based in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Everything I teach, I've lived. My methodology isn't from a textbook. It's from the interior of my own healing, mapped over years of the kind of work that doesn't make for a tidy Instagram post.
In 2017, at 25, my body remembered what my mind had protected me from for decades. Childhood sexual abuse. Multiple family members. Their friends. Years of it, starting when I was three years old. The truth didn't arrive as a thought. It came through my body, the way it always does when the mind finally lets go.
What followed was a full-system collapse. PTSD. A misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder. Clinicians who couldn't hold what I was carrying, or wouldn't. Medications that flattened me. A mental health system that kept trying to manage me instead of meet me. I was failed in the places that were supposed to help.
And then something else happened. A spiritual awakening that cracked everything open in the best and most terrifying way. Plant medicine. The body as teacher. The slow, nonlinear, unglamorous process of coming home to myself. I went public about it before anyone told me I should. I'm still telling the truth.
My work sits at the intersection of somatic trauma healing, spiritual practice, and physical movement. Three worlds that rarely overlap, and that's exactly the point.
Choose your
entry point.
This work is not for everyone. It's for the people who are done intellectualizing and ready to actually feel. If that's you: welcome.
Deep, relational coaching for trauma survivors ready to move beyond talk therapy. We work through the body, the parts, and the nervous system at the pace your system actually needs. Parts-based, somatic, and spiritually grounded.
For those who know this is long work. Six months of consistent, embodied support: integrating trauma, rebuilding self-trust, and rewiring survival conditioning into genuine presence. This is the container where the real shifts happen.
A focused 60-minute session for clarity, orientation, or a specific piece of work. Not a substitute for a container, but sometimes you need to feel the work before you commit to it. Available to new and returning clients.
Turning Wounds
into Words
"Write your story at a pace your body can hold."
A trauma-aware, somatically supported writing container for those ready to turn their wounds into words. This isn't a writing workshop. It's a healing container that happens to produce a manuscript. The body leads. The story follows.
Born from my own experience writing Unbroken. I know what it costs to tell the truth on the page, and I know what it gives back. This container holds both.
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What happens when a NASM-certified personal trainer with 14 years of experience also happens to be a trauma coach who knows the body from the inside out? You get a session that doesn't just move you. It moves through you.
SOMATIC HIIT integrates strength training, nervous system regulation, and IFS-informed parts work into a single session. It's the only offer of its kind because it requires someone who has actually done all three. Not just studied them.
Book a session · $150The regulated founder
is the moat.
Founders treat their nervous systems as personal infrastructure. It's actually company infrastructure. The dysregulated founder produces a dysregulated org. The regulated one produces an org that holds pressure. This is a moat that doesn't show up on the cap table and shows up on every other line.
Burnout is not a workload problem. It's a regulation problem. Some teams are genuinely under-resourced. Most are operating from chronic survival activation and calling it commitment. The same workload destroys some leaders and barely touches others. State is the variable.
I bring the same methodology I use with trauma survivors into leadership work because the body doesn't care whether the threat is a childhood home or a high-stakes acquisition. It responds the same way. This is the work beneath the work.
A focused entry point. Ideal for a leadership crisis moment, a taste of the work before a longer commitment, or a corporate intro session. One session at this level is worth more than a year of interventions that don't reach the operating system.
Private coaching for founders and executives ready to lead from a regulated nervous system rather than a reactive one. We work through the patterns driving your leadership. The decisions made from urgency. The conflict avoided. The team held at arm's length because proximity feels like threat.
The container where the real rewiring happens. Six months of consistent, embodied work at the leadership level. $1,800/month is easy to position against a single executive burnout, a retention risk, or a leadership failure that already cost you more than this. Extended retainer engagements available.
Half-day and full-day workshops for leadership teams. Keynotes that reframe how your audience thinks about performance, burnout, and what regulated leadership actually produces. Not a mindfulness session. Not a wellness add-on. The thing underneath all of it.
"The next decade of leadership belongs to the founders who can regulate."
Gabriella Cacciatore
Unbroken
How I Remembered, Unraveled and Returned Home to Myself
A memoir unlike any other in the trauma and healing space. Raw, unflinching, and deeply specific. This is not a recovery story with a tidy ending. It's the entire map: the full-body memory at 25, the misdiagnoses, the spiritual awakening, the plant medicine, the parts work, the years it actually took.
Written for the person whose story feels too complicated, whose healing feels too nonlinear, who has been in therapy for years and is still stuck in their body.
"You can't think your way out of a body that still believes it's in danger. Logic doesn't touch the nervous system. Safety does."
From Unbroken
Three levels. One path home.
My methodology works at the nervous system level, the psyche level, and the field level. Because trauma doesn't live in just one place, and neither does healing.
The operating system. Before we can do anything else, we work with your body's capacity to feel safe. Somatic awareness, regulation tools, and the slow, consistent building of a new baseline.
IFS-informed parts work that meets every fragment that adapted to survive. The protectors, the exiles, the inner critics. Not as pathology. As intelligence. We bring them into relationship.
Soul Part Retrieval. The energetic and spiritual layer. The parts that got left behind not just in the psyche, but in the field. This is the work beneath the work.
None of it means anything if it stays in session. We build the practices, the anchors, and the self-relationship that makes the shifts stick in ordinary life.
"I have gotten more out of this almost 2 months than I have in years of therapy. She is helping me heal wounds and take on life as it comes. I'm so glad she came into my life."
"She has used her challenging life experiences and trauma to heal herself and live as her truest self, and in return, is able to guide others to do the same. She has a gift and I am so grateful for her ongoing guidance in my healing journey."
"Gabriella was a great coach because she believed that I was capable of more than I thought I was. Our only limit is our mind and Gabriella helped me realize this."
Start with a conversation.
A 30-minute call to see if we're a match. We'll talk about where you are, what you're carrying, and what working together could look like. No pitch. No pressure. Just an honest look at whether this work is right for you right now.
Come home
to yourself.
This work is not a quick fix. It's a return. If you're ready to stop managing your symptoms and start actually meeting yourself, I'm here.